Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State, in her new very important role, understands the Border counties as she is quite near them. We need action and we need to be treated as good Europeans, as we have always been, not lapdogs. We need respect now and support, not his kind of baloney where Tusk says that Brexit took up very little time in fact.

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