Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

We should be honoured the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is here this morning to represent the Green Party. I am aware today is Valentine's Day but I was going to say, had the Minister, Deputy Ryan, not come into the House today, that it would be easier to find a green man on Venus than a Green Party Minister in the Dáil.

Today it is the turn of the Progressive Democrats Party, which supports the Government, to absent itself from the House.

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