Wallace calls for a general election
THE Taoiseach should dissolve this Parliament, call an election and let the Irish people decide, Independent Deputy Mick Wallace told the Dáil.
Speaking in the wake of the resignation of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment Denis Naughten, he said the Government could get rid of him for making mistakes and it could also get rid of other Ministers but, he asked, ‘what changes?’
‘How are things being done differently?,’ the Wexford Deputy asked.
‘The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, has cost more than €20 billion but the Government does not want to know and is prepared to turn a blind eye to it. The malpractice is frightening and the Government does not want to know.’
Deputy Wallace said he had given the Taoiseach the benefit of the doubt and he still respected him but the Government’s failure to deal with the housing crisis was mind-boggling.
‘The way the Government is approaching the crisis will not sort it out and is unfair to the people of Ireland,’ he said.
‘I honestly believe the Taoiseach should dissolve this Parliament, call an election and let the Irish people decide where we will go from here. God knows what the mix will be afterwards but the Taoiseach should give people a chance to decide.
‘This has been a dog’s dinner of a place since 2016. The confidence and supply arrangement is nonsense, rubbish.
‘Fine Gael could even form a proper coalition with Fianna Fáil or Sinn Féin afterwards but it is in the interests of the people that the Government go to the country and let it decide. This is the craziest building on the planet.’
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