Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is not agreed. Unfortunately, we are just running futa fata here. But for the weather, we would have been discussing this today, tomorrow and late on Thursday night. It did not matter about the Supreme Court decision originally. From what happened last week I knew what was going to happen today. The Government called an emergency meeting of the Business Committee to deal with the closure of this House due to the red weather alert.

There is indecent haste here, as there has been throughout the debate. If we continue in this way, as Deputy Micheál Martin said, we are going to have shaky foundations.

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