Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputies Joan Collins and Wallace for sharing time with me.

Deputy Boyd Barrett asked me when he sat down if he convinced the Government. It is indicative of the seriousness with which the Government takes this House and an issue of this sort that, for the past 45 minutes since I came into the Chamber, that, apart from Members on this side, there have only been two ushers, two clerks, the parliamentary reporter, two civil servants in the bull pen and one Government Member, a Minister of State at that, in the Chamber. No Cabinet Minister has come into the House in that time.

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