Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that there was a security aspect to it.

It is my understanding that the Tánaiste sought an aide-de-camp to assist him in his duties in terms of public occasions and events he will attend.

In terms of equality, there are three super junior Ministers, as they are called, or super Ministers of State, at the Cabinet table, and there should be equality between all three. I will not mince around or do the popular thing and say we are afraid to bring anything to the table or to the House. If they are at the table as Ministers of State there should be equality between all three. I will not tiptoe around that.

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