Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

This should have been a happy occasion for me to congratulate my constituency colleague on achieving ministerial office. I wanted to do so because Deputy Gormley and I go back some time, but I am quite appalled. The Minister of State, Deputy Roche, would have given more passion than Deputy Gormely did to the single transferable speech that came from the Custom House.

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