Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Naughten referred to the mass meeting at Cappataggle and we have had a few of them in the south as well, with mass meetings about the closure of local post offices. Government Deputies were the most vocal in their undying loyalty to the preservation of the post office network. All we were missing in some places was a stack of bibles, and if they were available every one of the Deputies would have put their hands on them and sworn eternal loyalty to the post office network. Today they are ready to come here to eradicate the one reference to An Post in social welfare legislation.

The Minister's excuse for the short timeframe was that we spent six months dealing with transgender legislation. That was fairly well ventilated but surely it is no excuse for rushing social welfare legislation. How can such an unseemly rush be justified in that way? It is nonsense.

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