Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I wish to share time with Deputies Coveney, Burke and Morgan. I wish to make a very brief contribution to this debate. I speak because I want to have a go at Fianna Fáil. Then I want to have a go at the Green Party.

I will start with Fianna Fáil. As a rural Deputy I suffered for 15 months. I welcome Deputy Chris Andrews to the Dáil. I am delighted he was elected and I have nothing personal against him. He is a nice young man and I wish him well. However, in Mayo, Galway and Sligo we had to read material written, like the Deputy's speech tonight, by the managers in Dublin, which stated that the Green Party would be bad for rural Ireland.

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