Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

However, it will need to make a few choices apart from these. It will need to bring in its own budget and make its own decisions, which will not be popular and will fly in the face of all the populist commitments Government Members made when they were going around the country in February. We will see then what they are made of. They were elected in such numbers.

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