Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I represent the people of my constituency every single day and I will not take a lecture from people inside here on the Opposition benches who profess to have a majority of knowledge or empathy or sincerity about whatever. They do not have it. The rest of us live in the real world too and we represent our people. We have seen the hardship, we have heard the hard luck stories and we have seen the people who have lost things because of the reckless behaviour of your party in government. Let us deal with that, please.

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