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

I thank the Minister for her courteousness and for all the work she has done. There is a huge agenda. These are often the unseen Departments in terms of the Dublin media but they are hugely important and they affect a huge number of people’s lives in a practical way. Most of us have found out in politics that it is the practical things that affect people day-to-day that really count and that is what the Minister has been doing.

I ask her to make sure that whoever comes after her is instructed, through her officials, to get our report on means testing in the social welfare system. We put a good report together and it is worth reading. I have been at that since I started politics and I will never give up.