Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

Recently in a Sunday newspaper, a journalist wrote that watching Fianna Fáil was a bit like watching children in the schoolyard jumping up and down saying "Na, na, na, na - ye can't clean up our mess". It is apt and appropriate tonight watching the calibre of the debate from across the floor of the House.

I am a proud west Cork man, who was born and reared in Drinagh in the heart of rural Ireland. I have no desire to see any facility closed, be it a school, post office or corner shop.

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