Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The proposals before the Ceann Comhairle are for a period of 65 minutes to deal with a number of amendments to this Bill by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. She will propose them in due course. The proposal is that the debate will conclude at 2.30 p.m. If we agree the timetabling for the debate, Deputy Ó Caoláin will find that the Minister will be addressing the issue raised during the course of the debate and he will find that he has no cause for the kind of indignation he has just expressed.

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