Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I was going to say, "Unfortunately, I could not make the meeting today", but maybe it was fortunate because it sounds like it was a load of bunkum anyway. It justifies me in my decision to not attend the Business Committee. I had another meeting already arranged and that is why I did not make it today.

It is clear that the Government, in its gyrations to make sure the Minister is not accountable to the Dáil, is hiding something. What it is doing is pointing even more to the fact that it is hiding something by the way it is going around it. It is nonsensical and ridiculous. It makes a mockery of the Business Committee.

I hope the media will report this properly and show what the Government is doing. If Fianna Fáil was on this side of the House, it would be pushing and leading the charge on this and because it is on the Government side now, it wants to shut it down. That is the reality of the situation.

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