Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

The Government of which Deputy Cowen's colleagues were members destroyed this country. They took the soul and the heart out of rural and urban Ireland. He may well smile. Today there are men and women in this country who are suffering as a consequence of the cheap politics Fianna Fáil played for 20 years, and he should never forget it. As long as I am in this House, I will never let not only Deputy Cowen, but his party, forget it.

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