Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----and as baffling as the Taoiseach's yarn here last week about the fog in the airport. On the HSE plans, the medical cards and the botched retirement plans, we have heard the Taoiseach say that there are "contingency plans in place". We then heard the Minister, Deputy Reilly, say that there are "dynamic contingency plans in place". Then the Taoiseach went one better and said, we have "transition teams in place" but when he was told that they were not in place he said that we will wait until the next Cabinet meeting and we will put them in place.

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