Dáil debates
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements
8:25 pm
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source
No, I am not straying. I am saying we can move on. We have heard a lecture from the Tánaiste about modern Ireland and the new type of country his party has so bravely championed in spite of opposition, yet he can allow money the Oireachtas voted - €3 million for the referendum last November – to be misappropriated, abused and misspent. They are not my words; they are the words of five Supreme Court judges. A debate in the House on the matter was refused. Where is the modern democracy, the new transparency we have been promised by the Government? We have witnessed crocodile tears this evening. I put it to the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, to make the point to her Cabinet colleagues.
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