Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would like to refer briefly to the events at Fingal County Council the other evening. Like other Members of this House, I served as a member of that county council for a period. I regret what happened to the Fianna Fáil Mayor of Fingal County Council, Councillor Mags Murray, whom I have known over a long time. When she wanted to leave the council meeting to visit her daughter who was ill in hospital, she was remonstrated with in a very cruel and, in my view, utterly misguided way.

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