Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The second point is that a number of Opposition Deputies said the role of Parliament is to scrutinise legislation to make it better. The way to do this is on Committee Stage by way of amendment. We all know that, but as Deputy Ryan has pointed out, we have spent an hour on Second Stage speeches again and there is no scrutiny by the Opposition of the detail of the amendments, with some honourable exceptions. Deputy Catherine Murphy raised two issues but both of them are being dealt with in the text of the Bill, by amendments which arose from the previous debate. Deputy Clare Daly raised the issue of pyrite. That is also being dealt with in the Bill and when we get to that section we can have a good discussion on it. Deputy Stephen Donnelly raised a few issues but otherwise we had Second Stage speeches.

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