Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

He will not, however, apologise to those on whom he called to resign. Incidentally, some of them did, for completely different reasons, and then the Minister would not credit them with that either.

Moreover, the wider Government response is amazing. Every motion tabled in this Chamber on a Wednesday evening during Private Members' time is a waste of time according to Government Members. They do not respect the mandate and do not respect Members' right to raise matters in this House. Speaker after speaker on the Government side comes in and asks how dare Fianna Fáil, the Technical Group, the Independent Members or Sinn Féin do so.

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