Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

I thank the House for agreeing to debate this issue and the Cathaoirleach for choosing it. This matter was tabled, and I checked the Seanad record where it is noted at 13.20 on Tuesday. I said that I would be in Belfast yesterday and that I would not be here to take it last night but that I would be here today, Thursday. It was submitted and is stamped as having been received in the Department of Finance at 1.25 p.m. I met the Minister of State at almost 7 p.m. that evening. I am therefore quite alarmed at the remarks that he flung at me outside in the anteroom.