Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

On a related topic, I received a letter from the Office of the Ceann Comhairle during the week informing me that two questions of mine had been disallowed. These questions related to certain pre-election promises of the parties of Government and whether they would be implemented. The letter stated, "The Minister has no official responsibility to Dáil Éireann for these matters." As a person with a mandate to represent the people of Meath West, I am entitled to ask questions of a Government which ten weeks ago made promises with regard to investment in enterprise. It is a serious indictment of the Dáil system that these questions cannot be put to the relevant Ministers.

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