Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is important that I put on record that the Sinn Féin Senators are deeply uncomfortable with section 6 being shoehorned into such a sensitive Bill. There are two points. First, it is bad practice and reflective of the chaotic nature of the current Government. We have seen this in the context of special advisers and vulture funds but particularly here where we are putting the issue of a judge not fulfilling their duties by a timeline into a Bill that is focused on survivors getting information on their life testimonies. There is something deeply distasteful about that. I do not blame the Minister.The Minister has been sent in here to do the dirty work of the Minister for justice who did put it in here. It needs to be marked on the record that it is bad practice but it is really distasteful to shoehorn it into the mother and baby homes Bill.