Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)

I do not have a problem with opinion polls that have a credible scientific basis. One can argue over the technicalities of how such polls are conducted, but it is wrong to do a survey with a clipboard outside three shops in a constituency the size of mine, involving some respondents who did not even reside in the constituency or the province. Nonetheless the poll was given credibility and the results were used to articulate a particular political agenda.

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