Michael Mulcahy (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)

This has been an interesting session and I have a number of questions for the Minister of State and, perhaps, Deputy Allen. I pay tribute to Deputy Allen and his predecessor, Deputy Gay Mitchell, who did trojan work on the scrutiny sub-committee. I have been a member of the sub-committee since it started and I pay tribute to Deputy Quinn, who was instrumental in terms of dealing with EU scrutiny. It is done differently in many jurisdictions. The consensus around Europe is that Ireland——

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