Wallace: ‘Do you think that people are stupid?’

Opposition party TDs have asked is Justice Minister Alan Shatter thinks that “people are stupid” and said he is no longer “fit for office” after a series of excuses over the whistleblower affair.

In a day of high drama at Leinster House, Sinn Féin, Socialist Party, and Independent TDs effectively joined forces in a bid to push Mr Shatter out of power.

Telling Mr Shatter “I will miss you when you’re gone”, Independent TD Mick Wallace — who has been at the forefront of the penalty points scandal — said the reality is that the justice minister has nowhere left to turn.