Dáil debates

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed)

 

7:00 pm

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

To be fair, I did not interrupt Deputy Sherlock when he was speaking.

It was stated in this House that the Fianna Fáil Party has put party before country. Nothing could be further from the truth. The decisions my colleagues and I have had to take, in particular in the past two years, have not been for political gain or popularity unlike many of the comments made by the Opposition, which has opposed every measure. Deputy Sherlock's party leader would not even say whether he would back the Croke Park agreement. However, when passed, he welcomed it, which is untenable. If, not when, the Labour Party gets to sit on this side of the House it will get a serious land because it will then have to make some decisions. The Labour Party has left many hostages to fortune during the past two years. Some of the comments made in this House by the Labour Party Members, in particular Deputy Burton, have been downright outrageous, outrageous on the basis not of fact but-----

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