Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I respect Standing Orders and I hope the Ceann Comhairle respects my right as leader of this party to make my point here. What happened last Sunday was a demonstration of the art and the craft and the skill of national destruction. This deal was done by a respected academic and a regulator without any real political input, bargaining or negotiation. It was done as if the people did not matter, as if the people did not count and as if the people did not exist, because if they did matter and they did count, and they did exist, they would have been consulted. They were not consulted and neither was this Parliament, this Oireachtas. It was a case of doing the deal in Brussels and let them eat cheese as the sleek limousines ploughed their way through the slush.

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