Tom Sheahan (Kerry South, Fine Gael)

For a number of weeks I, like other Members, have been putting down parliamentary questions and receiving the one-line answer that the question cannot be answered within the timeframe given. It suits the Government not to answer parliamentary questions to Members. I am frustrated that the answer I got to questions I asked weeks ago was that the Department had not sufficient time to answer them. Those questions have not been answered to date. Should they not be dealt with in a rota? What will the Taoiseach or the Ceann Comhairle do to safeguard the right to have replies to questions in the House?

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