Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that the Government was prepared to allow me to speak. I very much appreciate that. In fairness to everybody here - a lot of us have been around these Houses for a long time - it is clear what is happening. It is tactical. Numbers are tight. Let us get on and have a vote. If there was interest in giving me time, I would have preferred for that to have been decoupled from pushing the motion on until there were more generous Government Members available.

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