An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-20
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Seán Canney (IND), Galway East

I agree that the mother and baby homes commission is a sensitive matter for a lot of people. We should not trivialise or try to short-circuit the matter. I have never heard so many people worried about a Bill. We have not had time to go through it properly. It is important that we dedicate time to debate it in a sensible way because it is such a sensitive issue for so many people.
It is such a major issue for so many people and we need to show respect. The State has apologised. The optics of what we are trying to do here are absolutely wrong.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-20