Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am sticking to the Bill. I am just saying I cannot believe a Labour Minister of State would introduce such a trick of the loop - one could not call it anything else - just to banish 70,000 people from the housing list. During the election campaign, the party stated on a poster that it created 70,000 jobs but someone wrote “in Canada” on one of them. This Bill represents another "to hell or to Connacht" policy by the Labour Party. I am totally appalled by it and abhor it. I will certainly be voting against it and making my views known. I do not know whether the officials are pushing this or whether the Labour Party is not keeping an eye on them. I do not want to blame the officials unduly but the policy is coming from somewhere. I cannot believe it had its origins among any Labour Ministers.

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