Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

The third and biggest mistake of the Government is to think that the purpose of all the pain and suffering is to restore Ireland to where it was in Bertie Ahern's time. The dream of restoring a lost Camelot is always a huge mistake. Bertie Ahern's Ireland is dead and gone and it will never be restored. The Galway tent is gone, the FÁS trips to Florida are gone, the subsidised travel from the SIPTU slush fund is gone.

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