Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, made the sensible decision of not purchasing the land for the Oilgate project. However, money was spent in the past few weeks on the purchase of land in New Ross at a time when money is scarce. While there have been many good roads built in this country, we got carried away with ourselves and some of it is over the top.

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