Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I wish a good summer to Members and staff of the Houses, who work so well during the year.

We have heard much debate on this matter over the past 18 months, and we should reflect a little on it. Departments responsible for health and justice matters are two major social bodies in any country's government. Fianna Fáil, which claims to represent two of every five voters in this country, has no control over these two Departments. The Progressive Democrats, as far as I am concerned, does not have an ethos which allows it to empathise with the people who most need the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Department of Health and Children.

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