Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

-----in the Seanad and be here. The normal course of events is that it goes through a whole process. If any of us introduced legislation that was not thought out, the Government side would be telling us it did not want unintended consequences and wanted to bring this through the process which is there for that purpose. What have we got here? We are being told by the Minister of State that we should trust him, that everyone else is wrong, that he is the one who is right in this situation and that there will not be any unintended consequences. Poor process produces poor results and this is an appalling way to do business. I said most of what I wanted to say when I was speaking to this amendment to begin with. I will certainly be voting against the amendment, but the thing that should happen is for it to be withdrawn.

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