Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Friday sittings are an initiative of the Government and Deputy Ó Cuív knows as well as I do that Private Members' legislation has always been taken in Private Members' time in the past and somehow we managed. Perhaps it was the case in those days that Members did not have the same familiarity with legislation as is the case now, but my impression is that there are still many who are strangers to legislating.

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