An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-12-05
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I appreciate the Deputies have raised some very important issues, which merit debate in the House. I point out, however, that there is dedicated Opposition time every week in the House and Opposition parties choose what they want to prioritise for discussion every week. The Government will use Government time for legislation. We have a lot of legislation to get through before the Christmas recess. The Opposition is free to use its time as it sees fit.
On the three important points that were raised, I will have to ask the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to come back to Deputy McNamara on the explanatory memorandum. An explanatory memorandum of 120 pages is pretty big. I am not sure I have ever seen one that big.

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