Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Garvey for her work during the pandemic. I know that you were in your community delivering provisions, messages and water even to the members of your community. That is truly public service at its most fundamental. You showed that in your community, as a member of the council. No doubt that you will show it here too. I thank you for your kind words.

I call on the man from Listowel, the great Senator Ned O'Sullivan, one of the great servants of this House. He is also a great Fianna Fáil man and, as he would say himself, Fianna Fáil to the very ends of his fingertips. He has met every Fianna Fáil leader since the dawn of time. At one stage, Senator Ned O'Sullivan reminded me that he got three and a half quotas in a town council election. One would be fairly fearful of standing anywhere near him if one were opposing him on a ticket. He is a great friend and colleague. Being from Kerry, he would have to be. A Kerry man once said that a Kerry man with an inferiority complex is a Kerry man who thinks he is just as good as everybody else. Senator Ned O'Sullivan, you are probably better than most.