James Heffernan (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will not delay the House much longer. Was this decision made by a Minister who does not have a clue about what is happening in rural Ireland, who is so detached from the realities of what is going on there that he does not give a damn? He seems to have made this decision so flippantly that this is what it leads me to believe. Has the Minister ever been to these communities to see what is going on? I do not believe he has.