Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)

-----and allowed it happen. When we stand up to make a constructive point on it all we hear is heckling.

The biggest scandal we have witnessed in this country is what happened in FÁS. Anyone who proposes to be part of a party which stood over this should be ashamed rather than heckling and shouting when we want to make very genuine contributions. FÁS was a scandal and I will state this again and again. What happened at the top in FÁS should never have been allowed to happen and the previous Government should hang its head in shame.

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