Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is the Government's responsibility to propose the legislative programme for the House. In my time here I have never seen such a pathetic legislative programme as we have for this week's business. What we have before us for these two days shows us that this Government is now so long in office that it has lost touch with reality and with the people that sent us here. The Cabinet is suffering from a bad dose of burn-out. The Taoiseach cannot be seriously suggesting that we come in here and talk about Dáil constituency boundaries——

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