Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

If she had learned that, she should never have made this mistake. It defies logic that 15 Ministers sat around a table, made this decision and no one said, "Stop, this will not work. You should not do it." They also sat around the table and decided to increase the number of children in classrooms and no one said "Stop". They then decided to apply a levy to the wages of people earning less than the national minimum wage and no one said "Stop". My only explanation for this is that this is the first time the Government parties have had to make hard decisions. It makes sense that if a Minister has spent 11 years being driven around, he or she will not know the price of petrol.

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