Shane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)

That is why the people in County Meath stayed at home. It was the corporation tax that allowed companies to come in and invest in this country.

If the Government thinks my party will continue supporting what we saw yesterday it is fooling itself. Wee want certainty. We should not even be talking about this tonight but the truth could not be told two years ago.

Fianna Fáil and anyone who wants us to support them must start putting their cards on the table. They know their days are numbered. The men of 1916 knew their days were numbered when they took on the rebellion and they gave up their lives for it. The Government has made a disgrace of this country and its people. For once in their lives, they should not run away.

Ultimately, no one really cares about party politics. The Government ought not to look for co-operation and do what it did. My party tabled a motion in the interests of this country and the Government played politics with it again, like it did today.

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