Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support Senator MacSharry’s amendment to the Order of Business to allow for a debate on the pylons issue. What have the people of Meath done to this Government that means they are treated as second-class citizens? What is going on is outrageous. Deputies in Meath have shown themselves to be completely powerless and supine to whatever is going on. We now have these Deputies reduced to pleading with a retired Supreme Court judge to include Meath in her review. This review is the Government’s baby and such pressure on a Supreme Court judge is wrong and unfair.