Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

-----and tell them this is right and acceptable?

To those who might be listening on their monitors and those in the Chamber I state this is wrong. How long can they stand over it? When we walk down the corridor we pass the 1916 Proclamation and the men and women who are our heroes. When will we find the spirit they had? When will we start to fight for this generation of Irish men and women and boys and girls? If we can find it we might turn this thing around but the budget, the approach we will take, and the European summit in the coming days are an absolute betrayal of everything the Proclamation stands for. I will leave the Government to think about this.

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