Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Over the past six months, we were gradually coming to it. The Ceann Comhairle can do something about it, however. The Opposition believes the Government has put him in an invidious position because of the manner in which they are standing down the Order of Business for next week. In order to uphold his own independence, he has the right to tell the Government that it is placing him in a very difficult position.

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