Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

It is now eight and a half months into what I hope will be a five-year term of office for this Government. It is important that we deal with the weighty issues of the day such as health, education and proper planning. The obsessional sideshow with which Fine Gael is attempting to dominate proceedings this week is not good for politics or for putting the best interests of this country first.

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