Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----the fact that he was not just elected to the Dáil in 2016. He was, of course, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for four and a half years. He had responsibility for this area for four and a half years when he served in office with Fianna Fáil during that disastrous Government which led the country to bankruptcy, never mind individual enterprises. Rather than concentrating on what the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen, and I say or do not say, perhaps he might account for his own lack of action during the four and a half years during which he held that office.

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