Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is the point. On the Order of Business yesterday I raised the point that the 40 minutes allocated was totally inadequate. It is not tenable that 25 minutes is deemed to be adequate to consider a motion that we only saw yesterday and that has been commented on in international reports which we have only had a chance to see today. I think most of us are anxious that we do not make a decision within 25 minutes, rather we should actually refer the motion back to a committee which would take the time to look at it in some detail. I would not be agreeable to foreshortening the debate even more.

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