Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a pity Deputy Ruth Coppinger has decided to vacate the Chamber, along with the Fianna Fáil Members, who were crowing a while ago about the fact that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, was gone. Fianna Fáil has little interest in the €400 charge it was going to levy on people when it was in government. Deputy Ruth Coppinger referred to a sitcom that was on television in the 1970s and 1980s, "Only Fools and Horses". There was another BBC sitcom about a grumpy old man who opposed everything, Victor Meldrew. If she is going to draw comparisons, the leader of her party would fit this characterisation.

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