Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

------she is unable to answer my parliamentary question. The Minister attended that meeting and I am not aware that she is in the middle of a work to rule or industrial action. It is well within her gift to respond to the question and she should not hide behind the cloak of the civil servants' protest currently in train in her Department and in other Departments. This is an absolute nonsense where Members of this House are not getting responses to legitimate parliamentary questions. Rather than pleading with me-----

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