Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will discuss it in private session in a minute. I know who attends and does not attend meetings. If we check the record over decades, Government Deputies may not always have been the best attenders at meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts, possibly because they are taking on their own Ministers' line Departments week in and week out.

Be that as it may, I felt it was appropriate that each of the 12 members be given an equal opportunity to be lead speaker. However, as the Deputy said, the problem arises when they do not show up. Can we hold over that matter for discussion in private session?