An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-02-24
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Michael McNamara (IND), Clare

I wish to raise two objections, the first of which relates to the curtailing of debate on the Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 through the use of a guillotine. There is no reason to curtail this debate in circumstances where the Tánaiste has stated that the legislation would not be operational for a number of weeks. The only reason to curtail debate on this issue is to fix the loophole around fixed penalty notices that were handed out at ports and airports at the beginning of February. On "The Late Late Show", the Garda Commissioner spoke about fines at Dublin Airport, yet the legislation underpinning those fines was invalid. As such, they could not be enforced. By any stretch, that is a shambles.

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