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

I appreciate very much being given an opportunity to speak on this very important subject with regard to amendment No. 6. There seems to be a share of last-minute manoeuvres being done with regard to this very important Bill. Perhaps it is a sign of the new coalition that might be coming down the road, because there are overtures between Sinn Féin and Fine Gael and there seems to be very warm interaction going on at present in public and behind closed doors. The support that has been reached in recent hours and days with regard to the Bill seems to reflect very much on the romance going on at present between Sinn Féin and Fine Gael. I suppose like any courtship it will take its natural evolvement and it will go from one-----

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