Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I try to keep it to a minimum. Let us keep this in the centre. The Government does not rule any of the amendments out of order. That is not our role. There is an independent entity in place. I would have preferred if some of the amendments ruled out of order had been in order so that we could have had a good discussion and debate on them. A good debate often informs future decisions.

It is not the Government that rules them out of order. I know the accusation is that the Government comes in and rules these things out of order. We did not do so: that is not our role.

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