Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Doherty knows very well that his constituency colleague - the Minister, Deputy McConalogue - was on European business that evening. The Minister engages with me on a daily basis and advocates in a positive and constructive way for changes to the scheme. He actually made an input into the new scheme, unlike what Deputy Doherty did. I will remind the Deputy that I wrote to him, his party and his housing spokesperson, who is coming into the Chamber, asking for their input into the enhanced scheme. I did not receive one response, even though publicly Deputy Ó Broin said that he would respond and they would make an input into it. He never responded. I know that at the meeting - I got reports from the meeting as well - what he committed to that evening on behalf of his party is the same scheme that we have-----

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