Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Senator White spoke about respite care cuts and called for an amendment to the Order of Business to allow the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, to come to the House. The Minister will be before the other House today and will be here for three days next week so I cannot agree to the request. Listening to Senator White and other Fianna Fáil Senators, I am sometimes struck that they are still suffering from a sort of "post-Government syndrome". They seem to be so frustrated at having lost power after 14 years of economic mismanagement. They have lost all powers-----