Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I am about to finish. I have rarely heard a more disingenuous defence of Government policy than I heard tonight when a Minister attempted to say that we were making things up but then discovered he could not deliver his own script because it conceded that our point was essentially true and he was making up a story that bore no relation to reality. This has been confirmed by the amendment in which the Government ducks every single issue raised. The amendment essentially reads that we should give thanks for fine weather.