Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I do not want to be seen to engage in defeatist or negative rhetoric. I welcome the fact that an additional €50 million is being provided. Before the election, Fine Gael's advisers and minders were good at the spin. They came up with the five-point plan and with www.finegael.com. It now appears that those who led Fine Gael down that path are fallible after all. They have been found out. The chickens are on their way home to roost. The penny is dropping. The proof is in the eating. The die is being cast.

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