Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

It is very unfair that Senator Heady Eames should ventilate in public what I said to her in private. In my professional life as a school teacher, a barrister and a politician, I never experienced someone betraying such a confidence. It is despicable. It is highly unfair to have such a matter discussed or referred to in any other circumstances. I cannot "un-say" what the Senator said but I must mark my cards in future in talking to her as a colleague in the Houses of the Oireachtas.