Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)

No, he has enough to say too. We have to rebut all those allegations. Even though I am not a member of Fianna Fáil, I hate to hear spurious claims made about a party I was proud to belong to for many years.

I sympathise with the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, because she is a reasonable person. Unfortunately, the man beside her is not a reasonable person and has not shown himself to be reasonable in any policy he has introduced, such as the bungled water services Bill, which he still has not introduced but which he promised he would do in Clonmel many months ago. He then promised a fiver Monday, to get away slightly from the motion, when one could register for a fiver. That registration process is not working even now. It is shameful.

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