Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

That said, it is equally important that, if legislation is required, it should be properly drafted and fit for purpose. Clearly, the Bill has serious flaws and needs to have some of its aspects revisited.

The Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008 concluded an hour before the allotted time under last night's guillotine. If this Bill was to commence today, there would not even be three quarters of an hour for Report and Final Stages because an hour was taken up last night between 9.02 p.m. and 10 p.m. for the commencement of Second Stage. I wonder how much time we could have secured today on the Order Paper. Surely additional time could have been allocated, given that an hour was saved last night for the commencement of this process of address of this legislation. The situation is wholly inadequate and unacceptable. The guillotine is not the way to go in respect of critical legislation such as this.

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