Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There was no fleshing out of the national State construction agency it proposed. There is no blueprint and no paper. It would have had disastrous results given the length of time it would have taken to establish and how out of touch it is with working practices and the norms within the construction industry today. It was an ill-thought-out and very poor approach. That is why people were not persuaded by it. I answered the question the Deputy has asked in the earlier questions. I will take this opportunity to ask her to withdraw her assertions that this democracy is similar to Belarus or Russia. She has made that assertion twice in the last 48 hours. It is insulting. She did it on Sunday night and she did it again today or yesterday. There are 1,200 political prisoners in Belarus. That is the kind of cheap and superficial commentary that I think is disgraceful.

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