Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is yet another Bill that has been significantly amended since first publication. That is acceptable. The Minister has, once again, taken the opportunity to include miscellaneous provisions on a range of other issues that needed to be addressed, and that is fine. However, on Tuesday last, the Minister's colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, stood up and gutted a Bill presented by my party in my name on equality budgeting in legal provisions that protect the most vulnerable in society, and it was dismissed because it did not contain enough references to other Acts. Of course, we knew that was a nonsense excuse, but we were shattered - pardon the pun, but sometimes the Minister's name is useful in making a point-----

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