Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of Sinn Féin I strongly oppose the guillotining of this Bill and also the Bill that will follow. This is about proper parliamentary practice and there needs to be an opportunity for every Member of the House to have an input into the Finance Bill. There are details within the Bill that were not discussed on budget day, yet there was a lengthy discussion in terms of the Budget Statement. It is crucially important that we allow Second Stage to proceed without a guillotine. I believe that could be accommodated without requiring a significant amount of additional time. I urge the Minister to review his position on guillotining the legislation in order to accommodate the other speakers who wish to contribute on Second Stage. I do not see the necessity to impose a guillotine. There is no major urgency attached to the Bill in terms of deadlines in getting the legislation across the line. Sinn Féin will oppose the proposal. We ask the Government not to proceed with it, especially given that we have not imposed a guillotine on Bills recently, and to continue with that practice and to let the Parliament debate the Bill in full.

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