Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

The country is in crisis. There are 450,000 people unemployed and the Minister thinks it appropriate to spend €1 billion on power lines and €500 million on roads in Northern Ireland. The sooner this Government is out of office the better if that is its approach.

I wish to raise with the Minister the recent statement by the Green Party that it had been misled and betrayed. Yesterday, on "The Week in Politics" the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Carey, said he felt betrayed by the Green Party. The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Deputy Hanafin, said the same.

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