Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Why they wanted to exile him I do not know. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, says he is confident the Government benches will produce a victory in Kildare. To do that, the Minister will first have to produce a candidate. If he follows the pattern of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, in Meath and gets the wrong candidate the first time, now that the election is under way, he will find great difficulty in changing horses——

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