Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

So the politburo is alive and well. I intend no criticism of the Minister of State, but the reply he has just provided is farcical. No Minister should come before the House with a reply of that nature. The Minister's one-page script contains a one-line reference to the question I posed. That is not good enough and it reflects was Fianna Fáil did when it was in government. It is not good enough that the Minister of State came before the House with a script of this nature. I do not say this lightly because I know the Minister of State to be a good, honourable and decent person. However, his script is a joke. The Minister of State should return it to whomever wrote it and tell him never to supply a script of that nature ever again.