Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This debate was originally scheduled to take place last Thursday but because the Committee of Public Accounts meets on a Thursday, it was requested that it would meet on Wednesday. The reason this debate did not happen last Thursday was that the Minister would not be here. It is interesting that we have scheduled a debate to accommodate the Minister and he has stayed for a very short period of this debate.

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