Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I also object to the proposed guillotining of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008. It is especially objectionable that a guillotine would be applied to the Bill in a year in which there has been a sizeable increase in the number of people dependent on social welfare benefits. The figures up to August indicate some 30,000 workers from the construction industry have been placed in the unemployment queues. A guillotine is wholly inappropriate. Many colleagues in the House seek an opportunity to properly participate in a debate and a guillotine would prevent this. I urge the Taoiseach to remove the guillotine, or we will have no option but to challenge the proposition.

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