Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When all of the controversies emerged around the Minister, Deputy Reilly, it was sort of episodic. There was the issue to do with his personal finances, the issue to do with his interest in private medicine, particularly in a private nursing home, the debacle around the €130 million of cuts and so on and it became apparent to me at least that Cabinet would circle the wagons, the backbenchers, probably happily enough in Fine Gael and, with a sense of unease, the Labour Party would join suit, and that the lads would stand by their man.

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