An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-21
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The Government has to act legally. Governments cannot act illegally. It is easy for the Deputy and other Opposition Deputies to proclaim that we should act illegally. Governments cannot act illegally because if we do so, we expose workers in terms of the compensation that would have to be paid, rights and so on. We do not want that. We want to protect renters. We want to protect people from becoming homeless. We want to protect people from being evicted. The legislation gives us-----

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Sitting date: 2020-07-21