Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, the Minister has just got into it. I would please just like to have one moment. The Minister has gone into this matter and he is regurgitating words attributed to me by journalists. Those are the selfsame journalists who have been paid handsomely during the Covid-19 debate, as well as newspapers and other publications, to do the Government’s spin and narrative for it. The journalists attributed those words to me. Anybody who looks at it, will know that I never used those words. I refer to the A-word and everything else. I would not utter it and I never did. I will take no lectures from a pompous and arrogant Minister at this hour of the night.

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