Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

This is incredible. It denies the Members of the House, under Standing Orders, the right to have discussed reasons this Bill should not be taken today, as I have outlined. What the Government is trying to lash through here today is a grotesque abuse of Parliament, and it will come back to haunt our people because of the medium and long-term consequences of this Bill, of water taxes and so on.

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