Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have every confidence in the Leader. I know how difficult it is, having been a Member of the House for some time, to get Ministers to come here, but I cannot accept that it is because of the EU Presidency this mantra is being dished out to explain why we cannot get Ministers to come to the House. We have held the Presidency on two occasions during my time in this House and I never heard that mantra from the then Leaders of the House, irrespective of which side they were on.