Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to refer to amendments Nos. 48 and 72. The Minister is here today, although that he was held up and arrived late. He was not held up the morning of the committee hearings. He arrived in and we expected to have a robust debate with him that morning, as we had with the other contributors who had given honest speeches. The Minister read out a script and he fled out of the committee. He left us.

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