Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach will not take any other proposition from any other quarter except his own. He comes to the House this morning having imposed a levy - an extra debt of €50,000 - on every family in the country through what he did yesterday. He said the meeting he had in his capacity as Minister for Finance had no relevance to this situation. That is the same thing his predecessor said when he addressed a meeting in Manchester as a citizen as distinct from being a Minister.

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