Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

It is a strange way of dealing with it, and I am as familiar with the system as you, a Cheann Comhairle. However, I will accept your ruling on that.

A total of 12 items have been passed by this Dáil today without debate and guillotines will be imposed on seven Bills. If my recollection is correct, the Dáil collapsed on three separate occasions for lack of business yet in the week it reassembles we will engage in an exercise of sanitised democracy when no real business will be transacted and we will simply have a debate.

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