Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I could not resist the temptation to contribute to the debate on this amendment. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle knows how it is. We have had this debate on many occasions during my time in this House. It has certainly been a regular debate during the past ten years. I remember a very tortuous debate that took place in 2005 or 2006 when I was a member of a committee that dealt extensively with oil and gas exploration and its potential. It is all very fine to refer to what was done in Norway but they have a different seam there.

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