Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Leader to go back to the Taoiseach, or whoever made the balls for him to throw on this particular occasion, and say the following in the interest of democracy as opposed to authoritarianism. I want him to say that, in contrast to the method of allocating speaking rights in this House, where the largest Opposition party has been excluded from certain things, and in contrast to the Government's policy in appointing the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, whereby the Taoiseach and Ministers opted to take all of the discretionary appointments for Labour Party and Fine Gael members, on this occasion we should facilitate the inclusion in the banking inquiry of the expertise of the likes of Senator Barrett, including Members of the other House. That should be done as per the practice, which is fair. Irrespective of whether it is Marc MacSharry, Darragh O'Brien, Diarmuid Wilson or any other Fianna Fáil colleague-----