Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

As I stated, the time arrangements for the debate can be discussed by the Whips. The House will obviously make whatever arrangements it wishes. Moreover, in my experience, during the lifetime of the Government, there has been no great difficulty in the amount of time made available to the Opposition to make its case on legislation. The only difficulty I can see is that the Opposition often does not use up the time made available to it.

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