Seanad debates
Thursday, 15 December 2005
Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages.
4:00 pm
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
It was quite the reverse. They tried to persuade me that instead of going ahead with the big project, I might be wiser to go ahead with the smaller one. This was a case where I said "No", that I wanted to go ahead with the big project. In effect, Deputy Rabbitte and the Nowlan family came to my aid by creating a situation in which we could do both. In case it is thought that hard-hearted officials were prevailed on by a mean-minded Minister, that was not so — in fact, it was the reverse.
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