Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like to make a point similar to that made earlier by Deputy Howlin. I proposed a Bill in this House some months ago to reform the law on the wind-up of defined benefit pension schemes. It was passed by an overwhelming majority of Deputies. I think the only people who voted against it were members of Fine Gael and a few tame Independents. A couple of weeks later, I received correspondence telling me I would have to wait for a money message, which is an animal I had never heard of previously.

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