Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Parliaments do not work like this in other countries. This centralised control is unique to Ireland. It does not have to be like this. The only way it will ever work is not by changing the time we begin or a few bits and pieces, but by the Cabinet of the day - this Cabinet or the next one - relinquishing control and letting this House breathe and do its work. Hopefully we might see some of that.

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