Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What is happening here is that we are asking Parliament to rubber-stamp a Labour Party dispute. The Dáil should be allowed to discuss this issue. Deputy Colm Keaveney was appointed by the Dáil to the committee and we are being asked, at the request of the Labour Party and without debate, to remove him from the committee. It is quite shameful. At least let us have a debate on this issue in order that we can be told why we should vote to remove Deputy Colm Keaveney from the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, because I think he is a fine Deputy.

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