Search for "cycle to work" speaker:Mattie McGrath (KildareStreet.com)

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017): Mattie McGrath: ...Anyway, we need to have joined-up thinking. We need to allow our people to work. We are not going to get back to the comely maidens dancing at the crossroads. That was a time when they all had to cycle to work on penny farthing bikes. That is what the Government is going to reduce rural Ireland to if it is not careful. We are not going to take all the blame for all the climate change....

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