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

The amendments tabled by Deputy Michael McGrath and me are insertions, so I do not understand why they were not dealt with separately from amendments that propose deletions. I can understand how amendments proposing to delete a provision of the Government's legislation are directly counter to one another and that the amendments fall if the words stay, but I do not understand how an amendment that proposes to insert something new, and not to delete something the Government has said, is not voted on as a separate matter.

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