Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

It is not agreed. It would not be proper for this House not to debate No. 14. For the fifth time we have a postponement of democratic elections to regional fisheries boards. Extraordinarily each year the same order comes up again with only the name of the individual Minister Tipp-Exed out. Five Ministers have introduced this order over several years, including the former Minister of State and former Deputy, Mr. Gallagher; the former Minister of State, Deputy Browne; the Minister, Deputy Ryan; and the former Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power. We now have this order before us.

In 2005 the Minister, Deputy Ryan, as an Opposition Deputy criticised the postponement of elections and voted against them on the basis that it was a sorry start to a process. It is a process we all support.

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