John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

We have an unprecedented crisis in the European Union because of the comprehensive rejection of the EU constitution by the French and Dutch people. We have major problems in our nursing homes and hospitals. We have the exposure of corruption and mismanagement in the second Morris report. The response of the Government to all this is to go on holidays and to take its Cabinet roadshow to Cork. In three weeks' time we are off on holidays again.

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