Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Is the Government now determined to effectively rule by guillotine, which is the same as ruling by decree? We are changing now into a Dáil which is ruled by decree and in this case, legislation which is of historic importance and which will double the country's national debt, will be subject to a guillotine and a debate in a total of three hours. That is not good enough in terms of ordinary taxpayers' interests.

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