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

It was the other side of the House that started discussing procedure. Unfortunately, it always seems that, when it comes to the Gaeltacht and rural affairs, the Government tries to rush the fences together. When Mr. Dinny McGinley was the Minister of State, everyone on this side of the House walked out of the Dáil because he tried to put the relevant Bill through all Stages.

We got this Bill on Monday. Amazingly, we also got a notice by email telling us that amendments had to be submitted by 11 o'clock on Tuesday before the Bill had even gone through Second Stage. I presume that the Minister will tell us that the Report Stage amendments had to have been submitted before we even started our Second Stage discussion. The whole thing is a cod, but the Government is fussing about us discussing the wider aspects of the Bill-----

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