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

The next speaker is Deputy Terence Flanagan. I want to explain the reason I called Deputy Buttimer. He was at the top of the list of speakers but he kindly obliged in relieving me to enable me to attend a meeting. That is the reason I called him; I was not showing any great preference. I want to be fair to everybody. I am trying to afford everybody the opportunity to contribute and we will succeed in that.

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