Liam Twomey (Fine Gael)

There are anomalies in the public service that have not been raised with the Government or that it does not feel the need to address. We did our best to accommodate the passing of this legislation because we were told it needed to be passed by tomorrow or else there would be problems for the Government. It might have been clever on its side to try to slip this one through at short notice. Perhaps we should not be so accommodating. We are insulted for not doing our job when we are trying to accommodate the Government with what we are told is important legislation.