Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for protecting me. The Deputies should read the newspapers I read. I walk the streets of Tallaght, Greenhills, Templeogue, Firhouse and Brittas where people tell me what I presume they tell the Members opposite. I listen to what they say. When they are unhappy, I try to respond, but when they express satisfaction, I do not go overboard about it. I am spending a little time outside Tallaght knocking on doors in Kildare where I do not get the sense that people are very unhappy either.

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