Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I will share time with Deputies Burke, Clune and Varadkar.

I congratulate Deputy Varadkar on tabling the Bill. I welcome the thought that the Government has given it a broad welcome but I do not see the need to take six months to study the Bill to propose amendments - there are shades here of the Cluster Munitions Bill tabled by Deputy Timmins which was praised and subsequently introduced in Government clothes.

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