Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

The Taoiseach should come here. I heard about the revised memorandum of understanding from the media. I did not hear it from him. I think he is missing the point. I am genuinely trying to understand his negotiating strategy. I am trying to come to terms with how he is trying to achieve the objectives he has set out. I do not understand it and I am sure the Irish people do not understand it. We need to know who is going to pay for this. Is it going to be the rich, those who earn over €100,000 - I know that does not mean rich - or those in respect of whom we can introduce a new third tax band? Is it going to be low and middle income earning families or the 500,000 people who are on the dole? Will it be people on social welfare and all the small people who elected the Taoiseach to bring about change? He is doing exactly the same as the crowd on my left when it was in government but the Irish people sorted that party out.

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