Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One should grow up and smell the roses. I cite the post office in Ballaghaderreen as an example. It was the last day of the Fine Gael empire and Mr. Patrick Cooney, a TD from Athlone and Minister at the time, informed the local Fine Gael activists that the post office in Ballaghaderreen was given to the Fine Gael activist in the area. There was another person in the area and the poor late bishop wrote in seeking that that person would pertain to the post office in Ballaghaderreen. I came into the office and I got a representation then from a Fianna Fáil councillor who happened to be connected to the Fine Gael activist in Ballaghaderreen. Of course, it was a choice of having a controversy on the issue. I could appoint and fire or not appoint, but the verbal statement by the Minister to an activist in the area was seen to be in that Department a kind of a contract. I just give a little insight in life.