Dáil debates

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

9:45 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Well rebuked. I notice that we are getting very fussy late in the night about procedure. When we entered this Dáil, I believed that there was a procedure whereby, when Bills would be published, their heads would first go to the committees and that we would not bring Bills to the House and take all Stages in one go. This is the most extraordinary situation. On Sunday after the match, I went to my office in Galway and went through the large amount of paperwork that I had, including my diary for the week. I started examining carefully what the week's business was, as I tend to do and as I am sure the Whip will be glad to hear, to find out that there was the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill. When I decided to check what it was, I found out that it had not even been published yet.

The Taoiseach announced this the day that he told the House that he would change the Departments. Surely to God it did not take four weeks to write three lines of a Bill, most of which is repetitive.

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