Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Offices and Responsibilities of Ministers of State. Ministers of State on local authorities
Summary
McDowell asked whether the Taoiseach would press Ministers of State and Cabinet colleagues to relinquish their local-authority positions; the Taoiseach said he would encourage them.
In view of the Taoiseach's assurance to this House that he asked his Minister of State and several of his Cabinet colleagues to relinquish their positions on local authorities late last June, and his assurance to this House that they would do so as soon as they could, will the Taoiseach confirm that he will now become slightly more strident in his demands that they should give up these offices and concentrate——
