Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I remember writing an article in 1995 for the Sunday Independent asking the last Fine Gael Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to deal with the overtime issue. Nothing was done. Diddly squat.

Fine Gael and Labour were a disaster for the criminal justice system. Like a swarm of locusts, they left devastation in their wake.

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