Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to oppose the Order of Business because of our overall unhappiness and dissatisfaction with the way the business of the House has been ordered today and, in particular, the guillotining of the debate on the Social Welfare Bill, which is absolutely unacceptable. Yesterday I thought about 13 minutes would be provided for the discussion on each amendment, which is ridiculously low, and that was to be only for the spokespersons. The time has now been reduced to eight minutes per amendment under the revised schedule. We estimate that eight minutes is all the time that will be allowed on Committee Stage to discuss the respite grant cut about which people all over the country have written, complained and spoken to their TDs.

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