Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

They are the same people who we expect to serve us on Monday morning with a smile on their faces, whether it is in the accident and emergency department, on our buses, the gardaí if something happens to us or if people rescue us from our top window when a house floods. Those people will not have a smile on their face on Monday morning and they will be dead right. They have been at the receiving end of abuse and vilification in this country.

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