Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister must have also lost my telephone number, but that is okay. There are 3,500 people waiting on the housing list in County Tipperary. We have many homeless. We have agencies and people. We have direct build, modular build housing and everything else now for people fleeing the Ukraine war. I do not oppose that, but we cannot do it for our own people.

Someone said earlier that the Minister introduced 22 Acts. It is a pity he is not in the Gaiety Theatre or the Abbey Theatre. He is in the Houses of Parliament, however. He comes from the same school as Raphael P. Burke, G.V. Wright and company and, indeed, he is well-trained in blunder and bluff. I heard the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, speak about how people better look after agriculture and fishing but instead he is selling us out on that. The Tánaiste and Taoiseach did not even stay here for the debate to support the Minister. Many more of the others would not be here either if they were not waiting for the Saturday sitting. Sunday might be a different story, however. They will be feeling sore and scratching their heads wanting to know what happened. It is time for the Minister to go and let someone who has a vision and way of doing something for someone take over.

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