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Sat 09 Sep 2005FF chair of committee denies he is avoiding Shell issueFianna Fáil's Noel O'Flynn, chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, rejected a Labour Party claim that he is avoiding convening a meeting on the Shell Corrib gas issue.Mr O'Flynn was responding yesterday to criticism of him by one of the Oireachtas committee members, Labour TD Tommy Broughan, who has accused him of "running away" from the issue.