Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

It is unsatisfactory that the Minister, to whom this Adjournment matter is personally addressed, has prepared a script without knowing what I have to say. It is not acceptable and I hope the Dáil reform committee will deal with such situations so that when questions are put to Ministers, they or their juniors would be present. This is no reflection on the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, who has the chore of reading scripts he has never before seen concerning matters about which he does not know.

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