Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I object to the guillotining of the debate on No. 27. True to form, the Taoiseach wants to rush through in record time a measure which will penalise people. He is not prepared to have sufficient democratic scrutiny or debate. It is bad enough that the Taoiseach wants to take medical cards from people but he does not even want to afford Members of the House and the Opposition in particular the full opportunity to scrutinise these matters and to challenge the Taoiseach yet again on poor policy.

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