Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a question of fairness. If any Deputies on the opposite side of the House have a difficulty with the mandate of the 50 elected representatives of Fine Gael, I would say they have a problem with democracy. Even beyond tomorrow's debate, there are members of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party who do not get an opportunity to speak as other parties have outlined. At times when a Minister speaks on behalf of Government, he or she will take a departmental-Government approach. Sometimes, the Fine Gael approach is different and our inability to be able clearly to express that is an affront to democracy. That is why this change needs to happen.

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