Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Of course you did. The Deputy supported a position when a former Member, Mary O'Rourke, whom I heard on the radio recently, brought in a report about the Seanad. The Deputy could have implemented all those reforms if he had wanted to do so. He and a former Tánaiste, Michael McDowell, had three years to do that but they did nothing about it. Second, he put in place a system where he attempted to buy off all the committee chairmen, the committee vice-chairmen and the convenors and he had 20 such committees and 20 Ministers of State. He supported all of those, including having more politicians in here. He wanted 180 politicians in this House not 166 or fewer.

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