Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

Have the people on trolleys, those who are emigrating, the low paid and people without accident and emergency services made that choice? Are the lifestyle choices of our people being made by the Government? It has a choice between giving billions of euros to toxic banks and putting it into job creation or public services. It has made a lifestyle choice to put this money into bad banks. When it looks to introduce universal social charges, water charges, property taxes and other cuts that are on the way, the Government makes that lifestyle choice. Does the Taoiseach agree that the Minister's remarks were entirely inappropriate and should be withdrawn?

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