Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Last night, the gulf between Government Deputies and those who elected them grew wider than ever before. The people looked on with horror as the members of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party applauded a savage budget that attacks the poor, the low-paid and the medium income earners. It was a budget cobbled together by economic illiterates.

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