Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

By the time the Government is finished, we will have 50 TDs from the Government ranks being chairs of committees, Cabinet Ministers or Ministers of State. That is more than half of the entire makeup of the Government who are dependent on the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste for their political careers over the next few years. I will ask the Minister this question. How do we know this is a stroke? It is because only half an hour has been allowed to debate a range of amendments from the Opposition-----

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