Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

This is the 11th piece of legislation to be guillotined this week. A dog's dinner has been made of the Criminal Justice Bill 2007 and three separate Bills are now to be passed almost at once, which is something I have not seen in all my time in the House. Bills are now being chopped, one after the other, without taking into account the requirement of the House to hold the Executive to account by scrutinising legislation. We oppose this guillotine as we do all others.

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