Michael Healy-Rae

Try to use up my time, do. You do not like what I am going to say-----

-----but I will continue saying it.

A waffler? I will tell you about waffling. Deputy Kenny made a statement earlier on.

He made a statement. He said this Government had to be brought kicking and dragging over Mercosur. A lot he knows about it. Did he read the programme for Government-----

-----which was written 13 months ago?

What did it say? It clearly said that this Government was going to vote against Mercosur-----

-----and it was going to work with like-minded countries. A lot of work Deputy Kenny did on it. What did he do about it? He mouthed. He went on Facebook. I want to tell the IFA a thing about Sinn Féin and what it is doing.

Its members wake up in the morning, wet their fingers, see which way the wind is blowing and they go that way.

The other thing is that they live for Facebook. Their governance is Facebook.

Their governance is that they get up in the morning, wet their finger, see what way the wind is blowing and that is Sinn Féin policy for the day.

The IFA is hitching itself to its wagons. The killing thing about it is-----

-----that the IFA membership up and down the length and breadth of the country who I am listening to-----

-----and who I am talking to know what this crowd are at. They are using you.

Why are you shouting me down?

It is because I am telling the truth. You do not want to hear what I am saying. Will the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach call for order and keep my time?

Without interruption, thank you.

The other thing I want to say, because I want to call another thing out, is that when I hear-----

Would I interrupt you? I would not dare.

I am going to tackle another thing, and I am talking to Kerry IFA now. I heard a man speaking with great authority, and I am sorry he is not here now, and that is my colleague, Deputy Pa Daly.

I heard him talking with authority about Kerry IFA. Well, I can tell you one thing, he would have to put Gortatlea mart into Google Maps to find his way there because I never met him there. I never met him at an IFA meeting going back over three decades, 30 years, of going to IFA meetings in Kerry-----

-----and then he goes lecturing here tonight.

You see, you do not like what I am saying because what I am saying is hurting.

All you are doing is wetting your finger.

I am telling the truth.

At least I have a soul and a heart.