Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I wish to make a comment on the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte's finale to his deliberations. He asked that we in opposition should stay quiet for 40 years. He is rolling back the years when he says that, considering the various parties of which he has been a member, Democratic Left, or the Workers' Party and all the way back to Communism almost in that he wants no opposition whatsoever.

Despite all the U-turns, flip-flops and climbdowns of this Government-----

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