Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely, but this legislation has flowed from events since then, when we had an instruction to shape what should happen.

There is a slightly precious view that somehow the Opposition is pure and less base or politic than the Government side. By that definition, therefore, the minority should be able to overturn the view of the majority. That is something I just do not accept.

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