Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Not agreed. Yesterday we raised the issue of the guillotining of Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill. What is proposed today is to take Committee and Remaining Stages of the Bill today and tomorrow. No separate time has been allocated between Committee Stage and Report Stage and 23 pages of amendments were presented to the parties in the House this morning. Yesterday we passed a special motion to deal with a series of amendments which represent almost a new Bill in so far as they were not considered by the original Bill.

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