John Paul Phelan (Fine Gael)

Despite this, €1,000 a day is being spent to rent this new premises in Carlow town.

I agree with Senators Bradford, Mullen and others on the guillotining of legislative debates in the House. It is not a practice we should adopt or encourage. I supported the civil partnership legislation last week but I also respect the rights of people to raise issues of concern to them about the legislation. We should have had a full discussion last week.