Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Ceann Comhairle) | Oireachtas source

Can I just interrupt the Deputy for one moment on that point? This is all about technicalities and I would suggest to Deputies that before they submit amendments, they contact the staff to check if there are other ways of dealing with issues. We continually have this problem. I understand the Deputy's frustration because I was an Opposition spokesman myself. It would be better if we could arrive at a situation where the services of the staff here are available to Opposition spokespeople to check issues. I just wanted to make that point and put it on the record.

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