Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and then come back with wider legislation and allow this House, including the Government's TDs, do what it was elected to do, and allow the finance committee play its role. Let us talk about it, debate it and then vote on it.

This Bill, brought in this way this evening, is very dangerous and it is a fundamental erosion of parliamentary democracy. I ask all Members to think very hard about how they vote this evening.

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