Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

I know that. Between the lot of them the Government has made a hames of this issue. I know Deputy McGrath fought with his conscience and it is obvious that he won. That type of thing gives politics a bad name. I call on the Deputy, even though I am sure he has been called already to do this, that if he stands for anything, and I always believed he did - I have no reason to doubt otherwise - there is only one place for him to go but if he follows the flock of sheep that will go through the lobbies in an hour's time, it will be difficult to take that man or Fianna Fáil seriously in the future.

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