Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I am pursuing a very valid question. Where in the brief of the Minister of State, Deputy Curran, does responsibility for electoral matters before this House rest? Nowhere in the job description or in anything that the Taoiseach has outlined to us here today would suggest that it is a function directly under his aegis. I would like an explanation relevant to these questions as to why it is the case that the Minister who has responsibility has patently failed to face up to it but can present in the House otherwise and why the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach is performing this role over a protracted period.

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