Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No disrespect to the Bills Office, because the people there are completely run off their feet, but the fact that nobody even spotted the problem with these amendments, and I am not referring to the Chair but to the Minister of State, shows us how shoddy this procedure has been. No disrespect is intended. The Minister of State is bringing in 48 pages of amendments with no oversight, no pre-legislative scrutiny and no time for us to even go through them and assess them. These are major changes. It must be recorded that what is going on today is a shameful act in respect of these changes. It is extremely bad practice. I echo the calls of An Taisce, the Irish Planning Institute, IPI, the environmental pillar, the journalist Mick Clifford and the environmental lawyer Fred Logue. We can discuss these amendments all we want today and try our best to get our heads around them but this procedure is absolutely shameful and shows complete disrespect to the House.