Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

-----when he was returned in 2007, to carry out these actions. The Taoiseach has no authority to do so. He is asking the Dáil, by the mechanism of Government majority, to pass a motion to give it the semblance of some notion of respect or decency. It has none of those things.

Make no mistake about it, if, as a Dáil Deputy, I were to propose, as I have done in the past, to make an amendment to a Bill that would incur an additional cost of even a postage stamp, my amendment would be ruled out of order because it would impose a further cost on the public purse. That is a fact, and yet here we are being asked to rubber-stamp a proposition that will pour billions of euro today and in the future where young people, and perhaps a generation yet unborn,-----

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