Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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Before we move on, in the interest of fairness to expert witnesses who come before us, regarding the interpretation of statistics and facts, every one of us is perfectly entitled to our own opinion and is perfectly entitled to express and shove forward that opinion. In the same way, any person is 100% entitled to object to it and to be factually argumentative against it. I want to clarify that it is nothing personal by any person in this House. We are not questioning any expert witness on his or her bona fides or any such thing. We are accepting and debating the different viewpoints. That is all we're doing here today, in the interests of coming to a better conclusion at the end of our deliberations.