David Norris (Independent)

He is in charge here, not you, Minister.

The Minister of State hopes he has addressed my concerns. He most certainly has not. I am not blaming him personally. I am asking him to take this response back to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, a rather decent man, and inform him I am not satisfied with it. Apparently, the daughter is disposable. The officials who recruited this man were aware at all times of the family situation. They were recruited as a family but now the daughter is disposable. The Minister has accepted they were wrong about the wife. The Minister claims he has demonstrated that correct procedures were applied. Really? I remind the Minister correct procedures were applied in the case of Deputy Michael Woods and the Government rushed in an amendment to legislation to look after him.