Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

This is the sort of nonsense that goes on here. We are all into accountability and transparency and holding the Government to account, yet we are asked to believe in 2009 the sovereign Government of Ireland has a secret deal with a number of Independent Deputies. I would like the Taoiseach to clear this up once and for all. Is there an unpublished deal between the Government and Deputies Lowry and Healy-Rae about which nobody else knows except members of an elite corps of the Government and the Deputies involved? When Deputy Flynn was on the Independent benches, the story was another deal had been done between the Taoiseach's predecessor and the good Deputy. This issue was raised with me recently. Is there a deal between the Government and Deputy Flynn? I would like a "Yes" or "No" answer to that question.

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