Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and what he might do to them if they should ever have the temerity to do something that would be adverse to the Government's position and fortunes. In terms of parliamentary reform and the Parliament's future, this is more a relic of the past than anything we should be doing today or in the future. I disagree fundamentally with what the Government is doing in removing Deputy McNamara from these committees simply because he took a different position from the Government.

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