Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Moreover, the setting up of the Oireachtas Commission and the publication of the debates on the web on a daily basis are all positive developments that have enhanced the business of the House to which Kieran Coughlan contributed generally. His role always was broad and included taking on responsibilities in referendum commissions, constituency commissions and the Standards in Public Office Commission. Members of most recent Dáileanna will have seen the Clerk of the Dáil read out the results from the constituencies and their names being enshrined on the record of the Dáil after the election by people throughout the country.

I have known Kieran Coughlan for all these years and state publically that through all that time, the outstanding characteristic of this Clerk of the Dáil was his absolute integrity in all his dealings with matters of public life and of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

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