Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach in his speech used the verb "change" almost 20 times and that is not counting the number of times he used the term "reconfiguration". This is what change looks like, but this is not change. This will not change anything in the life of a single family or household in this country this evening. At best this is change delayed and change delayed is change denied. This is still a tired, out of touch, out of ideas, out of time Fianna Fáil Government. "Change" was not a word that was high on the Taoiseach's priority at the time of the last general election. I remember he said then that "if the car is going well, you don't change to a Lada". The Irish people took him at his word and hung on to the old model. It is now 13 years old. If it was a taxi, the regulator would not allow it on the road. All the Taoiseach has done today-----

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