Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In making my point, I am not going to take anybody to task. From my experience, most Ministers get two and a half years and are then shuffled. I got a long time but, because of the two-and-a-half-year timeframes, you never knew when the hatchet was going to fall. If you wasted your time and got sucked into the review gig without doing the immediately obvious, you would be out the door before anything happened. I ask that we all reflect on this because all I can ever think of is the fact that the people who come into the constituency clinic go out to a halting site with caravans that are not fit for human habitation. If others were in them, they would be queueing up to complain. I do not know how many times I raised the caravan scheme in the Dáil last year. I did so time and again during Questions on Policy or Legislation, during which Members can raise any issue they want, and still nothing happened. I often raised the matter purposely on a really cold, wet, miserable or frosty day and asked Members whether they would like to sleep in a bad, leaky, damp caravan on such a day. The biggest thing we have to insist on is action. That is my-----