Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for sitting in for in the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes. I also thank him for not reading out certain elements of the script he was given. Whoever prepared the speech was able to say that the Minister of State had sat here and listened with growing disbelief to my introduction of the motion. The person could not possibly have heard it at the time.

I know the Minister of State was elsewhere.