Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have said it before and I will repeat it. The Minister of State is as good as any of the rest of them. It is what the Government wants and not what the people of Ireland want. People can see through this. We have an educated electorate who, thankfully, can see every move the Government makes. Every time the Government's EU globalist friends ask the Government to jump, it asks "How high?". We saw it last week during the address of President von der Leyen, whom we all welcomed. Why was she here? It was more virtue signalling and talking up the great European Union. Where were our friends during the banking bailout? They proved it that time. I was in the same party as the Minister of State at the time. He voted for the bailout but I did not.

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