We never used electoral fraud to get a candidate's name on a Seanad by-election ballot paper. That is what Fine Gael did.

No Fianna Fáil Members opened their mouths during the interregnum between Governments when Fianna Fáil stuffed State boards. It was deemed to be acceptable because it was an action by Fianna Fáil. I do not agree with Fine Gael stuffing State boards and I only believe that suitably qualified people should be on State boards, as this is Fine Gael's way. The approach taken by the committee on which Senators Terry Brennan and Paschal Mooney sit is the way forward. I repeat that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, must come before this House and before that debate is held we should gather ideas and put them to the Ministers in order that we can get people back into jobs.