Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I will try to be brief. On 14 June Deputy Dempsey became Minister for this, his fourth Department. He is an extremely experienced politician at this stage. He got a written briefing from his Department, which we have seen, containing a section on the Shannon tourism and economic development and another section on the development of Shannon Airport. Is he seriously expecting us to believe that he got that written briefing but that he got no verbal briefing relating to those two sections——

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