John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)

-----if it carries the numbers in the House on the day. That is not an option we have tried. We have tried to implement reform on the basis of consensus.

This Dáil is coming towards the end of its life and there will be a new one. In that context I thought people would view some of these issues in a slightly different way and it might be possible to have consensus before then but if Deputy Stagg is saying he does not want to meet and, following the next election, he will implement his own programme, then so be it.

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