Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The Dáil is perfectly entitled to amend legislation and nobody is disputing that, but many of these amendments were barely discussed in the Dáil because of the guillotine. We cannot discuss intelligently 62 amendments if we can speak only once on them and it reduces spectacularly Government accountability. In the meantime I ask the Leader to look at a motion to suspend or to amend temporarily that Standing Order – we do it regularly here to cut short debate – so that we can have a proper debate on very complex amendments to legislation.