Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

There is minimal opportunity in the House to hold Government to account. The rolling of an omnibus leaders' question to the Minister for Social and Family Affairs by the Ceann Comhairle does not do justice to the Opposition in terms of our capacity to hear what the Minister has to say and pursue him by way of supplementary question. It is a precedent largely created during the current Ceann Comhairle's time.

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