Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

We, too, are concerned about the amount of time being made available for the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill. There is a particularly contentious item in the Schedule to the Bill, which will never be reached in the time available to us — it concerns the transfer of responsibility for community welfare officers. On those grounds, we oppose what the Government is proposing on the Order of Business.

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