Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 146: To ask the Taoiseach if he will identify the first five persons granted patents of precedence at the Irish Bar by the Government and give the date of each grant. [22194/05]

Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The 26th Government granted its first patents of precedence on 26 July 2002 in alphabetical order to:

(1) Mr. Paul Coffey

(2) Mr. Mark Connaughton

(3) Mr. Niall Durnin

(4) Mr. Gerard Kelly

(5) Mr. David Kennedy

(6) Mr. Éanna Mulloy

(7) Mr. Brian Murray

(8) Mr. John McDonagh

(9) Mr. Lewis O'Brien

(10) Mr. Cormac Ó Dúlacháin

(11) Mr. Roderick O'Hanlon

(12) Mr. Terence O'Sullivan

(13) Ms. Mary Ellen Ring

(14) Mr. Roger Sweetman

entitling them to admission to the Inner Bar.