Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are losing jobs due to bad EU legislation being brought in. Do we want to say we are the great people of Europe but we give out social welfare because we have no jobs for people? We have to decide and say what is good and what is bad. That is the way forward, working together with people. Each Deputy who is going away for St. Patrick’s Day should be proud of our country and not bow to the bigger nations that are trying to look down on us. We are Irish and proud of it.

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