Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal East, Labour)

I echo what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. At all the Business Committee meetings I have been at, we have seldom had such a direct discussion about needing time as last week - it was on the fisheries issue - and the Chief Whip came down strongly, saying the schedule was full, there was loads of legislation and there was no time for anything. Yet we are engineering a parliamentary schedule that has never happened before, a week in advance of a potential no confidence motion. It is making a mockery of this Parliament. We all know what is going on. We all know the context for this. What is happening is absolutely wrong.

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