Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

It seems the Government is building up to a massive guillotine in the last nine days of this session. Ministers seeking co-operation from this side of the House should know it will only be forthcoming for legislation flagged well in advance with ample opportunity allowed for appropriate scrutiny of the sort expected under the Constitution. For a Minister to send out a press release implying that if legislation is not passed by the summer the Opposition is somehow responsible is unsatisfactory and fundamentally unfair.

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