Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The only reason Government Deputies are now running scared is that they dread the prospect of an election. Whatever hammering they are given and whatever is said about them by good people, they will deserve it. They will be judged on what they did in this House and what they have done is shameful. They created a monster and wasted hundreds of millions of euro, believing they would get away with it, yet Deputy Derek Keating chooses to interrupt me.

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