Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is very simple. Stop the claptrap. Members of committees are nominated to those committees by political groupings. Each political party and grouping in this House reserves the right to make its own nominations and to replace nominations as and when each party sees fit. That is what we are doing here. It has always been done by the introduction of a motion and always taken without debate. If Deputy Kelleher's party or any of the other Opposition groupings want to nominate Deputy Keaveney to the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Government will not oppose it.

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