This is a sabotage of the Business Committee, which is supposed to organise the business of this House on the basis of co-operation between parties. It is an abuse of the Government's majority. Sickeningly, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party are lining up to drive a coach and horses through the process of democratic reform. The Business Committee and the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform might as well disband now.

This is a move to gag the Opposition in the most shameful way, as if the Government had not done enough sabotage over the last week. It sabotaged the self-employed, the taxi drivers-----

It has attacked-----

I have not finished making my point of order. This is absolutely shameful behaviour on the part of the Government. I absolutely cannot believe that the Green Party is a party to this. They sabotaged democracy. This is-----

We are not putting up with this. These people want to wreck democracy. They want to silence these voices in one go. We are not putting up with it. I am sorry, but they want to disrupt democracy but we are not going to let them.

You want to be in government and in opposition.

You want to have your cake and eat it.

Silence is complicity in this.

I will not sit down, with all due respect to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

The Government wants to sabotage democracy.

I am letting rip.

That is unparliamentary.

No.

On a point of order-----

On a point of order-----

We put down amendments.

On a point of order-----

We have an amendment that sought to resolve this situation-----

-----and we are not allowed to discuss it at all.

It is a compromise which exposes the dishonesty of the argument that has been put by the other side-----