Seanad debates

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Aviation (Preclearance) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages

 

9:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)

With respect, I am making the point that the Minister and his officials have been nothing less than superb with regard to responding to and acting on the points we have raised on this legislation and because of that, this is a better Bill than it otherwise would have been. That is what the Oireachtas is here to do. However, we have been let down by the way in which the legislation has been treated at this point of the process. I would not be doing my job if I did not emphasise that here. I stress that Fine Gael will not accept such an attitude for the remainder of this term.

Amendment No. 1 improves the legislation and it is great to see the Minister acted on it. However, it would be remiss of me not to emphasise that we should be dealing with the Bill in a different way, later this evening with everybody being aware of what is happening and having a copy of the amendments in their hands before coming to the Chamber.

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