Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

If the Taoiseach did not hear all of that, his predecessor, Deputy Bertie Ahern, did because he described it as "people sitting on the sidelines cribbing and moaning". He referred to a lost opportunity and said he did not know why the people engaged in that do not commit suicide. Does the Taoiseach accept that the problem was not that he did not get the advice but that he did not act on it?

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