Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Tonight, the Opposition members have come into the House to try to justify themselves once again. It might not be fair or accurate, but it is the kind of politics and the level of debate that we have learned to expect from an Opposition that has nothing to offer the young people awaiting their exam results, planning their future and anticipating their turn to lead Ireland forward.

The politics of Fine Gael and of Labour is the politics of attack. It is the politics of power for power's own sake. It is politics devoid of policy. It is politics empty of vision and utterly lacking in any real leadership.

The last end of term censure motion was from the Labour Party in June 2003. That night, the attack on this Government was about hospital waiting lists——

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