Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am genuinely not trying to be difficult. I know this needs to get passed and we are not trying to extend the debate unnecessarily. However, on Committee Stage we get to scrutinise and this is our only chance to scrutinise this Bill. I take the point about the arts committee and pre-legislative scrutiny, which is fair enough. Sadly, I am not on the arts committee but the point is we are having two Stages rather than the normal three and, therefore, this is our one opportunity to scrutinise the legislation. It is reasonable, as happens in the committee, that there be a little back and forth on what is, to my mind, a significant Bill.

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