Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

There is a certain benign arrogance in the way the Taoiseach addresses some of these questions. One week he referred to citizens as being mad and this week he referred to them as spluttering into their pints. I am advised the Galway problem was caused by a public sewerage scheme and not by private septic tanks. It is the case that septic tanks in the North are desludged every year and the cost is borne by the state. In all of the Taoiseach's ramblings-----

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