Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

What more can I say about it? Fine Gael and Labour are singing from the same hymn sheet and in fact, it is probably the same script. It is as if by repeating a mantra often enough people will believe it, particularly Labour people. I thought that Deputy Michael McCarthy's contribution was, frankly, a little ill-mannered but it shows that the Labour Party is having difficulty with its about-turn on the policies and principles on this and other matters.

Sinn Féin will probably lose what will be a vote on our motion later this evening but I can guarantee that we are not going away and we will contribute forcefully but fairly in an Oireachtas committee which undoubtedly will be set up and must be set up to fix this patently broken and flawed policy. We will not give up and we will not sell out.

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