Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This Bill flows from it. Unfortunately the timing is back to front. I hope I am lucky in the draw. I mean it when I say that everybody can have a spring in their step. When we had statements earlier today, none of the Minister's colleagues were in the House. The public think we watch it on the monitors. While Members might do so, they do not get the chemistry of the situation. People have meetings. We do not have virtual families and virtual breakfast table discussions. If possible people get together in order to get the tone, texture, feeling and music of the situation. Those are the best decisions. That is why the leaders of the world's countries get together - they do not do it over the Internet or the telephone.

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