Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)

I thank the Labour Party for providing me with an opportunity to speak. It is an awful indictment that this is the third occasion on which the election to the new structure has been proposed. In the Minister of State's address he mentioned that if it is not done, the existing boards will fall and effectively this is a threat to the Opposition, in other words that we would be responsible for the boards falling.

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