Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Of course we in the Rural Independents agree with the request for time to debate offences against children and the whole issue in this regard, but there are many issues that we want to discuss here that the Government will not discuss. The Chief Whip could have had an incorporeal meeting of the Business Committee before sabotaging our business here today. She did not even move the Order of Business until the Ceann Comhairle reminded her of the business of the Government. That is the fact of it. Of course we want the debate but we want Tusla to be included in it and the pernicious and vicious way it is treating families and the missing children from State care. Will they be included at all? Is this all a political game to attack Sinn Féin? That is what it seems to be. There are children missing from State care, and Tusla is out of order and behaving illegally up and down the country daily, terrorising mothers and parents. It is shameful. I want that included in the debate as well.

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