Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am always amused by the Deputy's cavalier attitude to the law. I have indicated what the rules are and we are obliged to adhere to them. It is not a matter, like her views on the Constitution, that we can accept or reject it according to the vagaries of the day and the political advantage to be made. Government does not operate like that.

As regards the share price, the Deputy can be sure that nothing I have said will impact on it because I will confine myself to the strictures of the rules and the laws that exist.

As regards the second question on pension matters, that is a matter for which I have no responsibility.

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