Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I am not suggesting it was but if Deputy Ring will listen to what I say he might have an understanding of my point of view. If people are on official business in the morning and the helicopter is returning to base and someone wants to be dropped off at a match I do not see that as outrageous. If people are using the helicopter for official business and it is going back to base people can be dropped home unless we insist that people return to the base and wait for a car to bring them back home. We can get quite petty about it.

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