Gerard Craughwell (Independent)
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I support what Deputy Buckley is saying. I am in the beautiful position that I am an Independent here and answerable to nobody but God. At the end of the day, key to the Committee on Petitions is that the citizen has access to the Oireachtas and the citizen has the opportunity to bring his or her case here, when everything else has failed him or her. From that perspective, leaving party politics out of it, I do not care if they kill one another down in the constituency, and that is all fair game as far as I am concerned, but let us put the citizen at the centre of everything we are doing today and make our decisions based on the needs of the citizen.