Is this the start of the great love affair? During a discussion on ethics in public office at a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Finance Committee it was decided that it would be of benefit for a four-person delegation to travel to the US and Canada at the end of the month to study arrangements there. Two members from the Government and two from the Opposition will go. Labour's Derek McDowell nominated DL's Pat Rabbitte.
Others travelling to Ottawa, Toronto and Washington are the committee chairman, Michael Ahern, FG's Louis Belton and A. N. Other.