Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will not go over previous question as I am sure the Minister and his officials, who I served with and know well, will be pleased to hear.

To begin light-heartedly, the Minister once told me, during some banter in the Dáil, that I would never be elected in Dublin 4 and that he would never be elected in Tipperary. In the context of this legislation, the latter is certainly true. The Minister keeps saying that the legislation is to address an anomaly. Can we have the evidence for that? Does this legislation originate from the Minister or is it something that has been in the Department of Transport, Tourism for some time? I cannot remember it when I was in the Department.