Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I must respond, now that she is here, to some of what she has said. Last night, we had a very sensible discussion about green cards with two of Deputy Munster's colleagues, Deputies Pearse Doherty and Ó Snodaigh. They were mature, sensible and constructive. As I said, I thought what they were doing before the Deputy came in last night - and she was late again today - was something very constructive. We could not agree to what they were doing because it was not in our power but they were representing their communities extraordinarily well. They were like thoroughbreds in a horse race. Deputy Munster came in, as she normally does, like a donkey in the last race at the last fence.

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