Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

The Tánaiste has promised to implement her ten-point plan and to consider the recommendations of the HSA. The Government has pledged to support the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in his efforts to tackle public order offences. He has come up with quite novel ideas about how he will tackle alcohol abuse in society by encouraging people to sit around wooden tables and partake in a café society. There is something of Marie Antoinette in the notion of us all eating ravioli and crostini while society breaks downs around us.

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