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

People think that if they keep repeating this, it will stick. I have news for them; they are wrong. Labour, the Social Democrats and the others, who are now firmly on the Sinn Féin leash, are being led like puppies with their new political master. If that is where they want to be, that is where they will stay. I would like to think that I have the finger on what is happening around the countryside, and last night, people in places such as Cahersiveen and Valentia Island were not impressed with what went on in the Chamber last week.

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