John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Metrology does not measure the usefulness of the words. It is interesting because the recent article about speaking time in the Dáil in The Irish Times seems to accord a high priority to those who have spoken the most. I am a reasonably new Deputy and I have heard a lot of Deputies speak here - I mean this respectfully - who have spoken a lot, and quite a number of them have repeated the same speech every day.

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