Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I would like to agree with Senator Cummins. However, I never saw such sustained time-wasting and deliberate kicking around of the ball in one's own penalty area as happened in the other House. The Senator was not there but I was. The difference between this House and the Lower House is remarkable when it comes to adversarial politics. The willingness of Members to take vote after vote on the timing arrangements and then chew up the time, to reject extra hours when they were offered, to have a half hour debate on the alphabetical order of the definitions in the first section-——