Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

----- that "Here is the Irish Parliament telling us what to do." The Deputy would be very free, as the leader of his party, no less than Deputy Micheál Martin would, to travel to Britain to talk to Irish communities. They can make such arrangements, but I am not sure whether it would be seen in an adverse way. It might not have the effect Deputy Brendan Howlin intended it to have for the right reasons.

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