Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

If the Labour Party really wants to find out what is wrong, it should review its policy of trying to be all things to all men. Its socialist soul has been laid bare in the last week. Its demand that people over the age of 70 who receive a pension of €2,000 a week, following the changes that were made last week, be entitled to medical cards is a display of a new brand of political opportunism.

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