Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before I call the Leader to reply, I would like to be associated with the marks of respect and condolences offered to the family of the late Monica Barnes. I served with her on the justice committee and I travelled abroad with her. I always found her affable and she was a formidable but fair opponent. She will be a loss to politics. If my memory serves me correctly, her father was from Dunmanway in west Cork where he served as a police officer. She had that west Cork link and she was a close friend of a great ally, and sometimes foe, of mine, the great former Deputy, P.J. Sheehan. They were great friends but her west Cork connection may be where she got her fighting skills from.