Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle allowing me to speak. Deputy McNamara and I have come from a meeting of the Business Committee, which is why we were late getting to the Chamber for the debate on the preceding motion. The Business Committee is redundant now. By the time I got out of the Chamber the other evening, the meeting of the committee was well under way. It concluded with a vote at approximately 10.40 p.m. to change the Order of Business for today. Like Deputy McNamara, I think it is shocking that we have 145 minutes for the debate on a motion such as this. When I see the number of Deputies in the Chamber and the slots not being taken up, I wonder what the public thinks of it. It is a tyrannical regime that we are going to put people under and I object strongly to it.

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