Ross ‘picking your nose, not listening to rural TDs’

Transport Minister Shane Ross was accused of “picking your nose” and “not listening” to rural TDs during a debate on his Road Traffic Bill.

Mr Ross was seeking to introduce a “dictatorship” aimed at destroying rural Ireland in the bill tightening drink-driving laws, which was branded as “rushed, ill-judged, and doomed to failure”.

“You are picking your nose and not listening to us rural TDs, minister. You are refusing to engage with us, with the ordinary people,” said Tipperary Independent TD Mattie McGrath.