Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The ministerial rota for the taking of oral parliamentary questions to the end of this session was published last week and once again the Minister for Rural and Community Development has been left off it. That means that by Christmas the Minister will have been in his post at Cabinet for six months and for some peculiar reason he will not have had the opportunity to come in and answer questions in the Dáil about his Department. That is unprecedented. I do not remember a Minister being appointed and not being given an opportunity to answer questions to the House during my time as a Member. Why is this happening, what has the Minister, Deputy Ring, done to be put in the sin bin and when will he have the opportunity, for which I know he is longing, to come in and explain why he cannot spend the money with which he has been provided by the Oireachtas?

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