Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister informed the House that the Defence Forces were called to Shannon Airport 324 times in 2013. The airport also has access to a strong Garda force. He tells us that to keep a 79 year old woman on a zimmer frame off the runway, she has to be put in jail. What planet is the Minister living on?

The Minister can throw as many personal jibes at me as he likes about issues I have had with the law and he can claim I am a law-breaker. I could throw stuff across the floor at him but I am not remotely interested in getting personal with him. He is letting himself down. I do not understand the reason he takes such an approach.

Will the Minister consider meeting Margaretta D'Arcy? She has a mind of her own and is not being used by anybody. She is in prison in Limerick and it would be a good move for the Minister to sit down and have a chat with her.

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