John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for that clarification. The Deputy said he had a number of questions but essentially he only had one and that was whether I was going to introduce legislation to allow civil servants to participate in the political process. The answer to that question is a firm "No".

The Deputy has made a big play and he has completely misconstrued it, probably deliberately so. This is an attempt to score political points——

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