Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I sat here while the Minister was delivering those words. He delivered them with all the enthusiasm of Munster supporters cheering on Leinster in a Heineken Cup final.

I know that my colleagues on this side of the House intend to appeal to the almost absent Labour Party - the only member of that party here is a former member of Democratic Left - to do the decent thing.

See this speech in context