Mary O'Rourke (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

In this House there have been very prominent and feisty women in all parties, including the three parties represented here at this moment, and the Minister well fits that CV. I wish her good luck in the Department and I have no doubt whatsoever that she will soon rumble the various subterranean plots which abound in Marlborough Street and which are bound to trip up a Minister at the very least opportunity. It is a Department with a long-standing reputation for that and from what I note it has not deviated from it.

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