Seanad debates
Friday, 13 September 2002
Retirement of Superintendent of the Houses.
I always refer to the Superintendent as the man with the piece of very old brown paper. Whenever there is a row at a meeting of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges about closing the post office, people being allowed in through the back gate or whether we are not making the same decisions as the Dáil, the Superintendent will arrive and produce a piece of brittle paper with a decision taken back in 1947, which he would have taken in pristine fashion from his file, to confirm the decision that is required. He has always been on top of his job and has set the standards for whoever will succeed him. We owe him a great deal. I thank him for that on behalf of our group.
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