Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

There are 30 amendment groupings and over 70 amendments. The danger is that we will be here for a terribly long time. Members will probably speak for even longer now that I have mentioned this. In the real world, if we are going to absorb so much of the time available to me in the Dáil as the Minister of State with special responsibility for children and youth affairs, the danger will be that the other issues that the Members opposite are rightly frustrated about and the legislation I am meant to produce will be pushed back bit by bit.

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