Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----because the Green Party members are leading the Government by the nose down the road to the abyss. I remind the Minister of State again that the Government has lost rural Ireland. It had it at one time but Fine Gael has lost what it had in rural Ireland. The Greens never had it in the first instance but the Government has abandoned it because it is being taken by the nose and is being led by a couple of people in the Green Party and these people are doing absolutely nothing, as is the Government.

It promised us 75 additional testers. Incidentally, I want to thank very sincerely the licence testers in Kerry who do their level best but there is quite simply not enough hours in the day or appointments that they can make. They are saying that they want more resources and want the Government to wake up to the problem we have.

The Minister of State may remember - if he is not old enough to remember it he would have surely been told about it - that there was an amnesty at one time when it came to licences.

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