Dan Boyle (Green Party)

I wish to be associated with the comments of other Members on the retirement from the Cabinet of Deputy Séamus Brennan. As a Member of the other House I had the dubious privilege of shadowing him in his capacity as Minister for Social and Family Affairs. He always had a disarming tactic of agreeing with much of what I had to say and acting on several of the contributions that were made, which in politics is not playing the game at all. I also had the opportunity of becoming quite familiar with him during our joint incarceration last June when we were negotiating the programme for Government.