Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

What I have said in response to the Deputy is true. He started off in an attempt to mollify me by accusing me of being intelligent. All I am saying is that he knows the Government has no statutory power to intervene in the way he seems to be suggesting. If he is proposing a change in the law, let us hear what he has to say. I realise there is a competitive tension between the two parties opposite in their attempts to achieve notice in the House.

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