Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

In his reply to my colleague, Deputy Howlin, the Taoiseach suggested that, for example, if something was being announced in one's constituency we could all claim to have contributed in some way to it being announced but I put it to him that it is bad for the body politic to have those secret agreements. If the Taoiseach's colleague the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, were to announce the building of a school in south Kerry, for example, Deputy Healy-Rae could produce his secret document and say "I got this. It is in my secret document".

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