Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I fully accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling on this but if that article of the Constitution applies to Cabinet sub-committees, surely it applies to the Cabinet itself, yet the same Minister can go onto national television and tell us what he briefed the Cabinet on yesterday. If the Minister is able, in that manner, to brief us in defiance of the constitutional embargo on what he told Cabinet it is hardly unreasonable to want to know if he told the Cabinet sub-committee in advance.

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