Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and on the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, by Deputies opposite. However, in view of the fact so much praise was lavished on them in our Private Members' time, I cannot understand why they pulled the six hour debate scheduled for Government time when it would have given the Government Deputies more time to lavish more praise on the Ministers because, as we well know, most Ministers' appetite for praise is insatiable. That debate would have facilitated their need for more praise.

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