Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

It is not agreed. A guillotine is being imposed on health legislation again. Yesterday, we objected to a guillotine that only allowed us one hour to discuss amendments to another health Bill. We had not even finished dealing with the first group of amendments when the time concluded. This is not an adequate amount of time to deal with a considerable number of Seanad amendments to important legislation. I can envisage considerable debate on at least one amendment. The guillotine is being used randomly on legislation. I am unsure about whether the Government has even read the Seanad's amendments. Perhaps it has, but the ten amendments are substantial and there is no way to deal with them adequately in the time allocated.

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