Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

The Dáil is here to keep the Executive to account. If the Bills are guillotined by a majority of Government supporters, we cannot hold the Government to account effectively. That is why the Opposition objects to guillotines. We do it in the name and the interests of democracy. That is why we are sent here. While the Seanad amendments to this Bill are not earth shattering, although it is a nuclear Bill, the principle is the same. We object to the Government's guillotining this Bill.

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