Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----from the public finances to banks, job creation, health, education, justice, social equality and a range of other issues. Minister after Minister will stand up and state we have nothing to offer only negative opinions. However, they do not listen because they do not want to read and hear what are good proposals from an Opposition party. The ethos of Fianna Fáil people in Government means they are unable to bring themselves to accept a good proposal from anybody else other than from the heart of their own party.

I feel very differently from the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, and by listening to the people I know what they are talking about. In every town from Castletownbere to Donegal and Wexford and throughout the cities they have the same predisposition; they want change and by that they mean a change of Government. This is why I say today that if Members have the courage of their convictions - if they have the courage to say they have confidence that the people support them - they would put their case.

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