Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

He did not even allow that minor change to insert "and/" into the Bill. It indicates the kind of knife-edge on which the Bill was agreed between the two parties in Government. Clearly the political imperative was that there would be no changes irrespective of the arguments made because it had been hammered out somewhere else. That is really regrettable and like the shambles of last night, it brings the House into disrepute.

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