Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When Ministers are advising in scripts that it will be by the end of the year, and so on, I always take it with a pinch of salt. It could be well into next year. In fact, we could be on top of an election if the Taoiseach calls the election when he said he would call the election, which is autumn 12 months.

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