Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

How can the Minister of State possibly tally his commitment to Dáil reform and to allowing for proper debate and scrutiny on key legislation, as the Government was promising, with this week's guillotine of a Bill which deals with probably the most substantial change to the Constitution that we have seen? It is inexplicable. I could not believe it when I went to the Technical Group meeting this morning to discover that the Government is guillotining the legislation dealing with Seanad reform. It is beyond comprehension. Could the Minister of State explain that contradiction?

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