Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is so sad that this Government got one of the finest mandates any Government ever got and it reneged totally on it. It has been an utter failure in terms of the people who elected it. That is a sad legacy to leave behind. I accept it inherited a great deal of trouble - it talks about that every day in the House - but it is time to move on. Its members are in charge now. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, is in charge now, and the ten additional Garda stations he will close in ten minutes is an indication of the contempt with which he treats the Garda.

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