Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

RACO told me it did not lobby on behalf of an individual to get this job, and it can issue a statement itself. I am not authorised to make any statement on its behalf. I am informing the House that I contacted RACO, as I am entitled to do because I was partly nominated to contest the Seanad election by it. As a member of this House, I must represent my party, the Independents, Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Sinn Féin and everybody who helped elect me to this House. While I am in this House, I will express-----