Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have accepted what I did. I am on this side of the House and the Minister of State is opposite, but her party is in Government on a flawed mandate because what it promised and what it is doing are at variance. We support the motion for many reasons but primarily because of the Government's attack on vulnerable people and because the Minister, Deputy Reilly, continues to sit at the Cabinet table. To those Government Deputies who are crying crocodile tears and promising to make every effort, I remind them:

When sorrows come, they come not single spies

But in battalions.

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