Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

On the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill I, too, ask the Taoiseach to reconsider seriously this guillotine. This is very important legislation with a series of complex but far-reaching measures affecting pay, social welfare and the retirement age. To have them all lumped in together in the first instance and then to ram them through while allowing for only two days of debate, is really the worst form of cute hoorist politics-----

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