Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)

-----by governments that managed the affairs of their countries in a fashion that did not leave them in a crisis such as we are experiencing.

It is not surprising that we are hearing the same old rhetoric. We should just hit the "record" button and then we could press "play" every time. On one hand we have the ostrich economics of the Technical Group and Sinn Féin, who want us to bury our head in the sand, pay nobody and pretend it will go away, and on the other we have the Fianna Fáil members saying it was everybody's fault bar theirs, and now they are going to play Opposition politics with it. On the other side we have the Government, which is trying its best to dig the country out of the massive debt that was placed on us by the previous Government.

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