Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I cannot support the guillotine on the Local Government (Charges) Bill. This Bill appears, by fact rather than intent, to focus on the elderly. It looks as if the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government was not fully awake when it was discussed at Cabinet because I do not see any amendments from him clarifying a range of specific circumstances in which elderly people find themselves as a consequence of it. That is why I oppose the guillotine.

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