Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We will be very grateful for it when the Minister of State gives it to us. This is what we need in Government. We need some ordinary people who are down to earth and who feel the passion of what happens on the ground. There is nothing worse than flooding and the problems it causes to people's property, their houses, their farms and the roads that would be torn away. We have the right man in position at the moment with the Minister of State there. The longer he is there, the better it will be for the people around the rest of the country.

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