Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Let us suppose I wish to table a question — the Taoiseach should bear with me as we still have some parliamentary rights — to a Minister asking if he or she will grant an exemption for, let us say, a contract nurse or a contract care worker or whatever in a given hospital or a given part of the service. There is no point in my addressing that question to the Minister for Health and Children who may have no decision making authority on the matter. I am simply asking the question. It is probably a matter for the Ceann Comhairle to consider and perhaps I should let him have——

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