Brendan Ryan (Labour)

In terms of the way the House does its business, to produce a Bill of such gargantuan impact on a Friday morning and demand that we dispose of it by Tuesday night is an example of the Fianna Fáil of old, which I thought had been consigned to history. Some things emerge after a period: first, a leopard does not change its spots; and, second, a poodle is no match for a leopard.