Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I support Deputy Kenny's proposal that the House should resume on 7 January. There is no justification for it to adjourn until 27 January. As I noted yesterday, the long recesses in January go back to a time when the budget was announced at the end of January. The argument was that the Government needed time to prepare the budget. However, this no longer applies.

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