Mary O'Rourke (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

Deputies Bruton and Burton are individual emperors who have no clothes because they have no new policies and those they have are markedly divergent. Can one imagine the fun?

I say to Deputy Lee in his little hidey hole, wherever he is, that he is welcome to the House. He has fertile ground now and let him tease out what is his party's economic policy and then let him tease it out again with the Labour Party. I repeat that I call this tabloid politics.

It is funny that one can go anywhere in this land, be in any type of social or political gathering and the question will come up about Deputy Kenny. As Members know, people will say that they cannot envisage what they term "that man" as Taoiseach of this country.

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