Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is not just for my party. I speak on behalf of the 140-odd Members who are not currently here. I think that those arrangements are a matter that needs to be discussed, for every Member to have an opportunity to speak on them. I respectfully suggest that on the basis that all of us have individual offices here, and with the benefit, as with this debate, of allocated speaking times that are specific to Members, there is no reason, with the imagination and will, that we cannot provide each of the 160 Members equal speaking time on such an important matter as, arguably, altering the intention of the Constitution itself.

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