Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Not agreed. I oppose the guillotine of all Stages of the Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2015. This Bill transposes EU Directive 2013/30/EU which was published as far back as June 2013 yet, two years later, the Government is only now putting forward the legislation to deal with it. It is very worrying that it has taken so long for the Government to implement a directive that regulates potentially hazardous activity in petroleum exploration and extraction. Indeed, the State's past handling of the Corrib gas project in Mayo, Taoiseach, is a reminder of why adequate time should be made available to debate this legislation and to reflect on the directive. It is guillotine time of the year but we object, as ever, to rushing legislation such as this through the House. It is not as if we have not had plenty of sitting days if we had only organised them in a more productive fashion. We are at the finishing line and rushing things in this way is not a good way to proceed.

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