Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

On a personal level, I congratulate Deputies Pat Carey, Killeen, Curran, Connick, White and Cuffe. Members certainly will miss Deputy Dooley hectoring and heckling in the Chamber, as he is more likely to be seen around Spancil Hill hereafter than on the Fianna Fáil backbenches, as he tries to save his political hide. As Minister for Finance after the last general election, the Taoiseach was not terribly happy that the Green Party was joining the Government.

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