Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputies Clare Daly, 'Ming' and I may have been calling for his resignation for the past six months but I for one take no pleasure in Deputy Shatter's fall from grace. I am sure his wife and children realise that there is more to life than holding high office. I respect Deputy Shatter's ability, intelligence, appetite for work, his stand on pro-choice and same-sex marriage but we have a very different philosophy on life. I would not, for example, have been looking to go for a drink with him.

I wish Frances well in her new job. I have a lot of respect for her.

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