Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If it is filibustering, at least it is preventing the complete abandonment of the most precious element of life in this country. That is what we are trying to do. As other Deputies have said, a monster has been created but there is no need to create this monster, and it has been done through the language of illusion. Section 7 is building that illusion. There are 730 words in the seven subsections and the paragraphs of this particular section, and it is meaningless. The German Enigma code machine could not unscramble what the Government is trying to say in it.

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