Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)

This form of government has no place in a modern parliamentary democracy and an opening-up of the budgetary system would also allow for genuine engagement with the Opposition, and allow it and backbench Government Deputies to engage constructively at a much earlier stage of the process than has previously been the case. There are supporters of this concept at senior level in government, in both Fine Gael and the Labour Party, and I look forward to developments in that regard shortly.

I listened intently to Deputy Stanley's contribution earlier. As always from his party, all we hear is empty rhetoric but no workable solutions for the crisis in which we find ourselves.

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