Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is not the road I would expect them to travel. However, it looks like it is. I would not support the elite to be getting jobs. That is exactly what we have been trying to clean out for many years. The nonsensical nod-and-wink style of politics. As Deputy McGuinness and Deputy Mattie McGrath said, there is a woman in jail for three weeks and no one cares. That is what we should be doing. We should be talking about Ms Yvonne Walsh and getting her freed to go back to her family in a crucial time in their lives. That is what we should be fighting and working for here, and we are not.

I refer to something I have been speaking about for a long time, the gentleman in Skibbereen who has had no justice for the last 13 years. No one here can tell me or that man how he can get justice and find out if there was a register in the court on that day. That has been overlooked completely. We continue to overlook important issues while we are sorting out the dream of the Minister, Deputy Ross. His dream is turning into a nightmare. He is in hiding. I have no doubt if he is down in west Cork, he is probably down in one of those potholes that he failed to provide funding for. A sum of €500,000 was spoken of. There is a bridge in Lyre in Clonakilty that needs €500,000 to be rebuilt since 2013 so that people can travel on the road. That €500,000 could repair the roads but the same Minister is not doing so. We should not be discussing this Bill. It should be in the bin.

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