Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 November 2003
Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second and Subsequent Stages.
I reflected on my time as Attorney General as I listened to the debate. One is not supposed to have an input into the formation of policy on many issues when one is Attorney General. It occurred to me at one time that there is a particular exponent among the political class of an art which is remarkably absent. The art to which I refer is the capacity to make three stories out of one action. It amazes me that if one is astute in one's PR management, one can announce the same measure three or four times and the media will pick up on it each time as if it were new. I am beginning to think that I have the opposite ability, as I do not receive enough bang for my buck.
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