If the Taoiseach is insisting on going ahead with the mother and baby homes legislation on Wednesday and Thursday – I assume he is insisting on going ahead with that – we need Friday cleared now for business. If the Deputy is agreeable to a Business Committee meeting----- The Taoiseach can do that. The Taoiseach does not listen to the Business Committee any week.
Perhaps instead of an Order of Business on a Tuesday, the Business Committee should meet and organise the business for the whole week. I suggest the Business Committee meet here every Tuesday at 2.30 p.m. instead of having an Order of Business. If we pass the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill 2020 in its current form, the only question worth asking is whose interests are being served because the Taoiseach and I know it is not the interests of survivors.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Jack Chambers and Marc Ó Cathasaigh; Níl, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 26–12 |
| Question put: | Carried | 26–13 |
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