Seanad debates

Thursday, 15 May 2003

Every week, a different Minister is hung out to dry in order to soften them up for the next step. It was Deputy Martin last week and it is Deputy Noel Dempsey this week. The only support Ministers get is from Members on this side of the House who, it appears, understand and have sympathy for them. What is happening is outrageous. We are surely entitled to an explanation. Let a representative of the Government come before the House and do their worst. Lets us hear what they have to say and we can then deal with it. This uncertainty is like a form of intellectual terrorism being brought to bear on people who do not have the ability to reply. It is completely wrong and I support the view that the Minister should come before the House to outline his views. Perhaps we should have another Minister on the following day to outline different views because there does not seem to be any Government position on this matter. We do not know where we are going.

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