Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I still want to commend our budget submission to the Taoiseach. If he takes the time to read it he might think it is of some assistance to him. Part of the problem is that the Taoiseach points out the things Fianna Fáil did wrong and then goes about doing exactly the same things all over again. The Taoiseach is trying to sell a very dead fish and it smells. He needs to be straight with people on these matters. He has only been in office for nine months but he is doing exactly what he blamed the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government for doing.

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