Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I refer to the way we do our business, about which I agree with the previous speaker. He was kind enough to share time with me for this Adjournment debate last Thursday. There is no need for Dáil reform in regard to this issue. This is something that has crept into the system over a number of years. Every day that passes, I see further evidence of the rights and entitlements of Members being eroded in the manner in which they are treated by the Government. Members are treated with contempt and it is appalling. We cannot do the job we were elected to do because we cannot raise a question in the hope of getting a straight answer.

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