Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Most of these items, with the exception of arrangements for January, have been discussed at length in committees and every Member of this House is entitled to attend and participate in those meetings. The committee meetings have been reported to this House after extensive discussion and it does not make sense to have a duplicate discussion here when Members of this House refrained from availing of the opportunity to attend committees and discuss their findings in detail.

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