Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I must once again plead with the Minister on the grounds of integrity and a commitment to his own programme that, when we get to the amendments I have put down, he will accept them. Please God, we will not get to those amendments until tomorrow. I hope that overnight the Minister will have time to reflect on his commitment and that he will come to the House tomorrow and have the good grace to say "Having reflected overnight, I am now satisfied that the proposal we put forward in the programme for Government was a serious proposal and one that we intend to implement". I look forward to hearing those words from the Minister tomorrow.

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