Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----that they are getting something by virtue of their support for the Government, that is not the case. The truthful position is that nothing is happening in Kerry South or in Tipperary South that would not have happened anyway and the only thing they have in return for their support is the right to write a letter to the Minister for Finance, the same as any of us could, or request a meeting with the Minister for Finance, as any Deputy can, and there is no special arrangement and no gifts of road by-passes, hospitals, casino legislation or anything of that kind that would not happen in the normal course of events. Is that the case?

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