Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2020-12-11
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

Here is the point, though. Our job here is to shape policy and to make legislation in pursuit of that policy. If there is a relevant case that illustrates why change of legislation is extremely important, it simply cannot be the case, under any reasonable interpretation of the role of a legislator, that I may not instance a particular situation which highlights the urgency of change. That simply cannot be the case just because some person might ask in whose case that situation arose. It is not our business to talk about whose case the situation arose in. The media may engage in that type of activity, but it cannot-----

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Sitting date: 2020-12-11