Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

——or that the unit could be used to bolster the Government's crumbling defences. The public assumes that it pays taxes for a communications unit for the sole advantage of Ministers who are also Deputies. Will the Taoiseach close down the unit, tell its workers to go back to their constituencies and Departments and ensure a level playing pitch for everyone? At least two Ministers and Ministers of State have told me that, with the greatest respect to members of the media, they do not read the Sunday newspapers or many other newspapers because they do not want to be depressed.

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