Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will take just one minute. I understand that people who have tabled amendments want to speak to them. I again want to object to the guillotining of the Bill.

It is a practice the Government has engaged in. It can blame Covid and everything else. It railed against it when it was in opposition and when it was in a confidence and supply agreement but now it takes it up with gusto. It is a desperate practice and we cannot properly scrutinise legislation.

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