Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask the Tánaiste about a number of items, including the county enterprise boards (dissolution) Bill and the local government amendment Bill. Last night in the Mansion House, I attended a very pleasant function, as did many others, at which there were many people from the LEADER development companies and the voluntary boards that are doing tremendous work. If these are going to be disbanded and brought under the county councils, it will be a retrograde step. The Tánaiste is being disingenuous about SUSI. There are students from Clonmel in the Visitors Gallery today and I welcome them. They are paying for the grants. The situation did not work. I took the time to go out there and visit it. The Tánaiste is wrong and is telling lies.

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