Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I can assure the Ceann Comhairle that it is not my intention to delay the House. If it assists the Ceann Comhairle, I will withdraw my proposal. If the Minister is adopting that attitude towards the valuation chapter and believes he cannot waste time on it, he might want to spend a great deal of time on the transparency sections, in other words, the gagging section. Perhaps we can group the amendments to those sections. We have less than an hour to complete Report Stage.

I can assure the Minister that none of us are interested in repeating ourselves. However, some of us have spent a great deal of time in this House and did so with genuine commitment.

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