Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It does not say group spokespersons only, it says group spokespersons. Surely it is very unusual in a debate such as this in this House that only they speak. In no other debate I have attended has been confined to spokespersons. This discriminates against any Senator in the House who is not in a group and is a mechanism to gag other Senators who want to speak and who have stayed here until 5.40 p.m. on a Thursday evening so that we could take part in the debate.