Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Before I do so, on behalf on the entire Membership of this House and Seanad, I wish to thank publicly the staff, the ushers, the officials and all of the people who work around these Houses to make sure that we can do what it is that we do on a daily basis. I thank them most sincerely and wish them a very happy Christmas. I wish to say how genuinely appreciative all of us are of what they do for us. We must make sure that we are cognisant in future not to have them here all night or on late sittings only to be back in at 7 a.m. the next morning. It is unfair to them and we genuinely appreciate what they do.

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