Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

To be fair to Senator O'Brien, we are all concerned about the scheduling of business. Last week on International Women's Day, Senator Bacik and I made a very important point on behalf of all Members of this House that it is not acceptable to any of us that we have weeks with barely any business to do and then at the end of the year we sit until midnight or 1 a.m. I also raised the point that our Leader is very conscious of this and, as all of us would agree, has been a very responsible Leader in representing all the interests of this House.