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

Shame on you. That is outrageous.

True Independents are those who have absented themselves from that farce that we call a Technical Group because one is either an Independent or a party but there is a group of Members in the House who want their cake and eat it. When someone stands up to speak the truth, it hurts. I do not know any other Parliament where a group of people with nothing in common from the extreme right to the extreme left and everything in between----

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