Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As we have heard for the past 20 minutes, we have a reforming Minister who is leading a Department and changing how we do business as a Government and as a Minister. I express my full confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence, Deputy Shatter, and commend him on the tremendous work he is doing thus far in his regime as Minister. I want to speak about a man whom I know, a man who is genuine, caring, decent and who has a vision for our country and the way our law and order operates. This is a man who is bringing about new policies on policing, our courts and the law.

I want to talk to the members of Fianna Fáil for one minute and ask them about dereliction of duty. The two men who were here earlier and who have left, Deputies Martin and Ó Cuív, were in government for 14 years and I have not heard one of the Fianna Fáil members speak about dereliction of duty to them when they were at the wheel of our nation's ship of State. Look what they did with it.

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