Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Having listened to the debate from my office, the Opposition has it right. Notwithstanding what the Government promised in the course of the election or the fact that because it finds itself in office, it believes it has a moral high ground on which to perch, it can be rightly stated that only one of the parties constituting the Government escaped unscathed in the recent election. One could uncharitably call it a collection of losers with one exception. I will not go that far.

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