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

All I am pleading for is a thing called common sense. My father was full of common sense. He did not go to university but I guarantee he had the brains of any person who ever went to any university. Where did he get it? He got it through common sense and through life's experiences.

This is a momentous night because this and other nights like it have changed the course of the future of rural Ireland. I really and passionately believe that. The one thing I will stand up for - as long as there is blood going through my veins - is rural Ireland. The Minister knows I will. It would be very neglectful of me if I did not. If our late father was here tonight, I know he would wonder whether they all had gone mad and what were they all doing. Were he to see Deputies sitting down and that they would not even stand up to effect a vote-----

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