Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

This is neither the Taoiseach's money nor the Government's money. The Government is not running a private business on that side of the House but rather it is running our business, the public's business. This is about taxpayers' money and it is about time that the Taoiseach came into this House, levelled with us and with the people of this country about the scale of our problem and let us all get down to dealing with it collectively.

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