Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I put it on the record before. I can assure the Leader that I am fully cured.

In response to an earlier question, Mr. Mitchell contrasted the different styles of parliamentary activityvis-à-vis the Dáil and the European Parliament. We inherited the confrontational politics from the mother of parliaments in England and there is a more consensus type approach in Europe. Are there aspects of the European parliamentary interaction that could be delivered here? I am not referring to this House but rather in the Dáil where it is adversarial all the time. Mr. Mitchell was quite a good man at the adversarial stuff himself when he was here as I remember. There may be some particular elements which could improve business in Dáil Éireann.