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

The programme for Government states the Government will “tackle the huge over-use of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation”. It continues:

While recognising that there may be exceptional circumstances in which debate may need to be concluded by a given deadline, we will restrict the use of guillotine motions and other procedural devices that prevent Bills from being fully debated, so that guillotining is not a matter of routine as it has become at present, particularly at the end of a session.

We will also deal with the related problem of legislation being shunted through at high speed and will ensure that Dáil Standing Orders provide a minimum of two weeks between each Stage of a Bill, except in exceptional circumstances.

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