Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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That is the truth. All these services are behind. People cannot get a driving licence or an appointment in a hospital. I cannot get a civil servant or anyone on the phone anymore. Now they want to bring more regulation in. They want to put people in rural Ireland out of business. They want to put these merchants out of business. The witnesses are right. There should be no changes made here until any changes are made in Northern Ireland. Why should we always be having people losing their jobs for us? Why should we always be over-regulated? It is always a case of attacking the small man and woman. It is the same with Revenue. It will not go asking the big people. It will go after the small people. That is what it does all the time. Why can we not have an Irish solution for an Irish problem? I would like a comment on that.