Our esteemed Ceann Comhairle needs a hand finding it..

Yesterday’s debate on the revisions to the Taoiseach’s departmental budgetary estimate drew sparks…

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin jumps in with:

I wish to ask a brief supplementary. The picture the Taoiseach has painted is not clear. The reason I ask this question is that I have never been in government and I am anxious and curious to know how these decisions are arrived at.

I base my line of questioning on what was abhorrent to Opposition voices in the House, that members of the Government and members of the Cabinet were apparently unaware of the detail of the decisions announced on 7 April or 14 October last, or were they just being smart-assed about it and pretending that they had not been consulted?

JOD, whose day would be heavy on the flapping, was quick to whip out his thesaurus. Or should it have been a dictionary?

I advise the Deputy I do not think the word “smart-assed” appears in the thesaurus.

Maybe, the Kerryman versions only list “smart-arsed”?