Is the Taoiseach as concerned as everybody else about the declining participation rate of the electorate in elections and referendums?
- The DL leader, Mr Proinsias De Rossa.
It has to be looked at...
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern.
This is a serious issue . . . and yet you sit here with a face on you as if somehow or other writing letters is enough. . .
- Mrs Nora Owen (FG) to the Minister for Public Enterprise, Mrs O'Rourke, in demanding action on the French truckers blockade.
I would not stoop to discuss people's faces, really, or what they look like. That is their own business, how they view their own looks. I am quite happy with mine.
- Mrs O'Rourke.
