Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I can only express surprise that none of the three questions on Leaders' Questions this morning referred to the suffering that a quarter of a million households in this country have endured as a result of the storm damage last night. I had prepared a detailed reply in anticipation that some member of the Opposition would consider the plight of these people sufficiently important to have raised it on Leaders' Questions.

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