Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I commend the Minister on his speech. I listened to Deputy Ó Cuív and I could not believe his remarks both as Gaeilge agus trí Bhéarla. He spoke about flying kites. He was a man who sat at the Cabinet table and who in a ten year period presided over the decline in numbers from 10,726 Army personnel to 9,500. He is a person who was a member of a party that in government presided over the closure of Army barracks. The leader of Fianna Fáil spoke on the opening day of this Dáil of the end to Punch and Judy politics. Six months on, the best we can see-----

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