Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and the position he holds, I will not lower myself to be as rude to him as he has just been to me. The legislation that currently covers the DPC was voted on by the Fianna Fáil Party, which did not object to anybody in the State having recourse to taking objection to a semi-judicial body making a statement of finding against them. The State has done this on numerous occasions with an Bord Pleanála and many other Government and State agencies without reputational damage being done. Nobody says An Bord Pleanála has been undermined by the State because somebody took a case against it.