Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That is not good enough because I am a member of the Business Committee and I was unaware that this was coming up, so I could not tell the people in my group or, indeed, Deputies beyond it. This is one of the most fundamental and central issues relating to what has been happening in this Dáil since we got elected. This is really what one would call pulling a fast one and it is not fair. When I stand up here to raise stuff on the Order of Business, as other Deputies do, we are constantly told that it has been agreed and done at the Business Committee, end of. All of a sudden, the Business Committee, or at least the Government Chief Whip, changes the Order of Business we agreed on Tuesday and tells us at 11.40 a.m. this morning when we have been up until 3 a.m. and we are supposed to accept that as fair treatment. It is not. It is grossly unfair. It is pulling a fast one.

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