Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The courts had no authority under any legislation to charge people. They were brought to court and now we are making legislation to make it right. One cannot make a wrong right, and one cannot make rural Ireland right unless the Government gets serious about it and tears out the officials and gets them down and dirty, and down behind the shopkeepers and to the post offices so they understand how hard it is to keep the doors open. I am not saying rural Ireland wants anything special. It wants fair treatment. If the people only have fair treatment they will do the rest themselves. They will not depend on the Government and the Dublin brigade for the sops. They will do it themselves.

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