Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We would be happy to spend another hour and we badly need it. There have been some very serious points raised and there have been some incredibly inaccurate statements put on the record.

They were not put on the record by Deputy Rabbitte: the Minister of State's own statements were inaccurate as well. I will deal with them as they come up.

I have never seen a situation where the Government comes to the House with a Bill and, in the speech before the debate takes place, its representatives say they will not allow it to go further. I might be wrong and they might have done it before. Anyway, it is utterly scandalous that they would do so on such an important humanitarian issue.

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