Mary O'Rourke (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

The Labour Party's cry is, "Let's spend it, let's have a stimulus". We are not told what the stimulus is. Stimuli can take many forms. "Let us have a stimulus and that will get everybody happy again. Let us have many more cutbacks and that will make everybody happy again". However, nobody spells it out. They do not want to.

Members will know the old tale of the child watching the king go by who said, "The emperor has no clothes".

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