Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is attending the Bord Bia Bloom event; the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is attending a national conference on the Green Paper; and the Minister for Defence is laying a wreath. If we are to follow the edict of the Government Chief Whip, arrangements should be made that no Ministers attend functions that are not entirely in the national interest or in the interests of international business, for which this party has always been willing to give pairs. We need clarity from the Government Chief Whip.

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