Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

People put their trust in Fianna Fáil which promised it could manage in bad times as well as good. We were told it had a plan and had built a strategy on sound foundations. All those plans have proved hollow and the foundations have collapsed. Ireland is not working under Fianna Fáil. Our public services are not working under Fianna Fáil and people are seeing through that.

What is true of the banks is just as true of the Government. It was said by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the other Green Party Minister whose name momentarily-----

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