Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

2:30 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The problem the Deputy has is that when I call him out on his behaviour he cannot handle it. He is not the only person in the room who cares about people who are on hospital beds or without a home. He is not the only person who cares about the need for children to have access to special needs assistants. I feel the same way about it, as do Deputies Michael McGrath and Paul Murphy. If the best Deputy Doherty can do to compensate for his lack of real ideas or policies that will make a difference is to come in here and feign anger without showing the decency to recognise that I also have feelings about these issues and want to make a difference, he does his party and, more important, the people who are suffering a grave disservice. I am here to make a difference and until recently I thought Deputy Doherty was here to do the same.