Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I agree that there should be a debate on the report. I ask the Business Committee not to schedule the debate so that it will interfere with the time already allocated to the Bill dealing with abortion and the outcome of the referendum on the eighth amendment. We are pushing to the wire to get that legislation passed by January and it is very important we do not cut across the time allocated in respect of it.

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