Get on with it.

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Is that how democracy works?

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Is that all there is to democracy? Just majority rules? No minority rights whatsoever?

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This is the Government's motion.

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No, we are not. It is more like 70 minutes.

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What we have heard from the Government benches is an incredibly narrow view of what democracy means. You could paraphrase the Chief Whip with "We won, you lost, we can do whatever we want.". I am sorry but that is not democracy. Where is the space in that for the rights of minorities? Where is the space in that for the rights of opposition?

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The rules that protect those rights were deliberately, consciously and repeatedly broken by the Ceann Comhairle last week. It is her job to protect those rules and to ensure they are abided by but instead she broke them one after the other. There was the unprecedented situation of a vote being called on the Order of Business and no vote being granted. It was an incredible, unprecedented situation of the Government's own proposal for Standing Orders not actually being voted on and simply deemed passed and the agenda simply ripped up for the day, including a Government backbench First Stage Bill simply forgotten about. The Government parties are absolutely right to draw the comparison with creeping authoritarianism internationally. It is them who are engaged in it. Why? Because it is a right wing Government without a mudguard that is preparing to ram through a series of highly unpopular measures. They are right to be afraid about the prospect of street politics because it is street politics that will ultimately beat them.

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Why not?

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No.

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Why not?

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Let us have a committee of selection right now.

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Let us do it.

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No. Set up the committees, please.

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Set up the committees, please.

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I am, yeah. Set up the committees, please.

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Do not be telling lies about committees then.

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Tell the truth about the committees.

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Will you tell the truth about committees, Darragh?

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You have been on the fence the whole time.

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