Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Indeed, but some of the amendments I put forward were accepted, or at least I was told on the floor of the House that they were accepted, only to find out that this legislation was actually transmitted to the Seanad without these amendments. I am, though, in the hands of the Ceann Comhairle. This Bill is deeply flawed and problematic. I do not have a problem with much of what the Minister seeks to achieve in this Bill and some of what he seeks to achieve in the Part to which I take particular issue, that which was introduced, as I said, the night before the committee's consideration of it. I can, however, do nothing further than to have this registered on the record of the Dáil and I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his patience.

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