Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

People are right to be cynical about politics and politicians. This place is a joke. We play games in here, and sometimes these games lead to the unfair distribution of justice or no justice at all. Sometimes they lead to people losing their lives, to murders, to families not getting any justice. What do we see when bad things emerge? We see our police force and our politicians circling the wagons and doing what it takes to cover up what they do not want us to see. They do what it takes to hide the truth. Is there any appetite for doing things any differently in this House? The Minister looks up at these benches and wonders how those people, with their long hair and raggy jeans, have the audacity to challenge him. The people of Wexford did not elect me to come in here and approve of the Minister's behaviour. They put me in here to challenge it. It is time for the Minister to go and to bring the Commissioner with him.

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