Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

You should be quiet. We had decentralisation in your constituency. We decentralised him and he is staying down there. You destroyed him with 19,000 votes.

I like Deputy Harney very much as a person.

However, I cannot understand her leading the Progressive Democrats into Government again when they were destroyed by the people, who rejected them. Although they did not want them in Government and wiped them out as a party, she is back as Minister for Health and Children. That speaks for the Taoiseach. He is a mighty man who can do this.

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