Finance Bill guillotine
Deputy Carthy again protested that Report and Final Stages of the finance Bill were being rushed through in 60 minutes despite many amendments, saying proper debate was impossible. The Taoiseach replied that the Bill had already completed Committee Stage and had received extensive debate, while the Ceann Comhairle moved the House on and put the question.
The Taoiseach regularly states that we need time for legislation. Today, there is a legislative Bill coming before the House to which several amendments have been proposed but only 60 minutes have been allowed to debate them. We will not get through the first amendment. We need to have time to discuss these things.
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It has gone through Committee Stage. There was an extensive debate on Committee Stage.
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There was not. The debate was also guillotined.
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There is a need for comprehensive debate.
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Question put: "That the proposal for dealing with this week's business be agreed to."
Do you agree with this result?