Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a practical matter. We have had occasions in the past where Report Stage of Bills has drifted interminably, deliberately so. This matter has already been agreed by the Dáil Reform Committee and by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges and it is in the interests of everybody to be able to move through Report Stage without hindering people of the opportunity to have their say but to do so in a decent fashion that allows them the time to say what they want to say.

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