Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

The use of the guillotine will become a major and urgent issue, particularly from September. There will be endless conflict and time wasted if the Government continues to do what it has done in the past three months, which it said it would not do. Every week there are several guillotines. A different approach can be adopted to legislation, which is to ascertain whether there is a high volume of demand from Members to speak and to make adjustments accordingly. The brutal method of the guillotine as a principle is reprehensible.

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