Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

There are constituents of mine in the Visitors Gallery and it seems appropriate to reminisce in this way.

I made a strong submission to the commission but it refused my request to be allowed to make that submission orally. How is it possible that the commission could devise the constituency of Longford-Roscommon which is divided by the River Shannon, the longest river in the British Isles? This so-called commission was supposed to be above reproach, like Caesar's wife, but a situation seems to have arisen whereby it broke every rule in the book.