Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

At least this is classical stuff. Again, I refer to the concertina of people, as with 12 people one could have a soccer team and a substitute while with 60 people, one could field four GAA teams. It is just incredible. As for customer dispute resolution, would one not imagine there might be a connection between section 7 and section 8, which pertains to dispute resolution and which is where the crunch comes from the customer's point of view? However, there is no such connection because the customer dispute resolution provisions, which go on for pages and to which Members soon will come, circumvent the forum. The forum is irrelevant by definition in the legislation.

Yesterday, the problem was understanding Ann and Barry arithmetic. As Members may remember, 2 million packets were sent out to hall doors and post boxes but one then heard there are 1.64 million households. Thereafter, one learned the basis of the calculation for the rebates or the grant was 1.3 million residences and Members could not work that out. Moreover, they still do not know and Deputy Shortall has been excluded from the proceedings. She actually made one of the top-notch contributions.

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