Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am new; I sincerely apologise. Several Members of this House were in the European Parliament at that time. I was going to mention them all, not just one, but I will not as the Chair has asked me not to. They will know that no matter what group they were in, right down to the smallest group, and some people were in quite small groups, they got an opportunity in the rota system to speak when their turn came. In other words, the largest group was followed by next largest and so forth. In this House that would be Government, Sinn Féin, the various parties right down to the three independent groups, and after, that the rota would start. My issue here is that we cannot pick and choose. This is not an àla carted'Hondt mechanism for Dail Éireann unless we say it is. Then it is not reform.

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