Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will only take a minute or half a one. The lecture here from the Minister about being a party from the centre tells me that he is reading too many cartoons. He does not know what the centre is. His party is so far right it cannot see its left. With any proposal we have put forward here we have been treated with disdain and lecture and sometimes with pretty hostile and demonising language towards us. We are entitled to represent our people and he will not stop us doing so. I am calling a vote on this amendment No. 72.

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