Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Deputy Scanlon must walk up those steps in five minutes, as must the Minister of State, Deputy Devins, and Deputies Calleary and Flynn. A year ago this week, Deputy Flynn said, as an independent Deputy, that she would have a deal for the people of Mayo that would be good for them and good for Mayo. She said she would have even more clout as an independent and on 5 March she made her clarion call when she said the only plan on the table was hers. She said: "I am now calling for a united approach to honouring that promise and I know that I speak for the people of Mayo in calling on my Oireachtas colleagues to back my proposal and to display the unity of purpose which the people of Mayo have a right to expect." That is the position the Deputy put to 7,000 people in the Traveller's Friend.

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