Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Not that I recall, Senator. I recall travelling to view a business park in Bristol when I was chairman of the county council, or when I was a member of Dublin County Council when we were designing what has now become Citywest Business Park, probably the most prestigious park in the country, and I presume it wasn't Dublin County Council who paid for us to travel. I presume it were the developers who brought over six or eight or ten of us to view the park that we replicated at Citywest. But I would regard that as part of my job and part of my duty rather than hospitality. Yes, I've travelled to matches. One friend of mine, in particular, is a small builder or maybe more appropriately, to be truthful, I don't know how good he is at it, his father was the small builder, and I notice sometimes, Senator, that talent skips a generation.