Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Labour)

Do Sinn Féin Members know the ramifications for social welfare benefits, salaries or investing in job creation? The Government is carefully navigating a road to recovery for the people. Yesterday Deputy Ó Caoláin described the Bill as "the worst kind of short-sighted policy [that] will come back to haunt our society and the economy in the years ahead." If anyone should know about such quotations, it is the Deputy. In October 2008 he stated in this House, in support of the blanket guarantee, "Sinn Féin Members will support the [Fianna Fáil] Minister in the passage of this legislation." The legislation to which he referred was the nexus of the problem Members are debating this evening.

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