Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The considerable number of amendments are the result of having listened to and spoken not only to NUIG but with everyone else too. What I was hearing up to yesterday was that this was never going to happen. It is important that it does. I could talk for Ireland on this issue as could everyone else, but we are at the point now where we need to do the business.

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