Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

I hate reminding my colleagues of the fadó, fadó stuff. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, people were given sufficient time in this House to make their case. If a Senator required 20 minutes to speak on Second Stage, it was given. Now the whole thing is compressed into a two or three minute contribution. Is it any wonder that we then try to deal with problems afterwards? If we had sufficient debating space, we could have already resolved them.