Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These are all worthwhile issues but the Minister is introducing them, from the proceeds of the sale of the national lottery which should have been ring-fenced and kept for the national children's hospital, as a slush fund to buy votes in the local elections in May 2014. I would ask the Minister to reconsider a number of those changes.

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