Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

Without even rehearsing, yet again, all of the utter misery that the cutbacks agenda, which the Tánaiste so enthusiastically pursues, is bringing to people's lives - even by those objective measures, the bailout strategy is failing. It defies logic that a person who bemoans their inheritance and urges others to put on the green jersey, does not have the simple wit to realise that when one is in a hole one should stop digging. When a course of action is clearly not working, one should change tack. That is the stuff of wearing the green jersey, good government, protecting our national interest and, above all, protecting our citizens.

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