Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

But what is in it for the rank and file in the back benches of the Labour Party? That is the question. They know in their hearts and souls that the public have called time on the Minister. Many of them never heard this Minister in opposition and what he said in various motions of no confidence. It would serve them well to go back and educate themselves on what he said and the personalised attacks he made when he stood on the Opposition side of House, before they say that the kettle is calling the pot black. They want to be complicit and they want to rubber-stamp the shafting of the Garda Commissioner. Shame on them. My party thanks the Garda Commissioner for his service, and we thank the members of An Garda Síochána for their success, in spite of the Minister's best efforts to place them in every single controversy which has arisen.

This is not personal. It is just business and it is time for the Minister to go.

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