Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A point of information has to be put forward. With all due respect to you, a Cheann Comhairle, and to your interpretation of what happened at the meeting, you were not there. Through no fault of your own, you were not there. That is not the interpretation of what happened at the meeting last week. I was there as were other Members were there. Amendments were put forward to the wording of the motion. A suggestion was made that we could have a minute's silence, rather than a motion that would be acceptable to everybody. It was agreed that it would be considered, that we would take it away and look at it and come back and agree what could be done. None of that has happened. This has come in from the Government today. The reason it is happening today is clear. The voting block is on today and the Government wants to make sure there are no Members about tomorrow. That is why it is not happening tomorrow.

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