Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

On No. 5, motion re Standing Orders 26 and 36 and the proposed Government amendment, our Whip has written to the Government Whip setting out our position in relation to this matter. We wish to be constructive in terms of amending Standing Orders given the number of votes and lengthy debate which took place during the Order of Business in the last Dáil. In this regard I do not look to Deputy Durkan or any other Member of the Government side in terms of the degree to which many of them indulged in raising matters on the Order of Business during the last Dáil.

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