Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important to point out that the washing of the hands in public is all very well and good but the reality is that these people are living with a problem that was created under the negotiations carried out by the Irish Government at the time when the directive was being drawn up by the European Commission. We can talk all we want about irrelevant issues such as whether we remain in Europe, but that does not really matter.