Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 December 2002

I join my colleagues in wishing a happy Christmas to all the Members of this House and the other House, and in particular to the staff of the House. I thank you, a Chathaoirligh, and the Leas-Chathaoirleach and thank, in a very particular way, the Clerk and the Clerk Assistant and the staff in the overworked and under-resourced Seanad office. They manage to get an extraordinary amount of work done and at very short notice even overcome – people just take it for granted – the difficulty of getting amendments to Bills painstakingly correct. The number of errors that I have ever seen over the course of a year here is so minute that it becomes a matter of note. Nobody gives proper recognition to the difficulties involved in taking a few badly scribbled notes on a page or words over a phone and translating those into properly prepared and presented amendments to legislation. I would like to extend my appreciation to Deirdre and Jody on those issues. It is important that these things are done correctly because it means less trouble for everybody else.

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