P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

The gospel refers to the use of money. It states:

This money, tainted as it is, is used to win you friends and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity. The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great things. The man who is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great things. If you cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? If you cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own? No servant can be a slave to two masters; he will either hate the first and love the second or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn.

The Taoiseach cannot be a slave both to God and money. It is now time, when all around him are giving him the same message, that at least one of those opposite should have the courage to stand up for his or her convictions. Will they all huddle together like sheep when the fox is approaching and stay bought and silenced like lambs to the slaughter?

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