Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I presume it was intended to intimidate the Government but it has equal impact on the Opposition so I would not go too far down that road if I was Deputy McGuinness. I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is promised legislation in the programme for Government. People seem to be referring to it as a bolt out of the blue but it is already in the programme for Government, as agreed before the Government was formed. It is an unusual Government in the way it was formed. Everybody was given the opportunity to form a Government in the past 12 months.

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