Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)

I wish to share my time with Deputies Dara Murphy, Keating, Kyne, McNamara, Mitchell O'Connor, O'Mahony, McCarthy, Tom Hayes and Heydon.

It is very confusing to see the people proposing this motion tonight taking such high moral ground when they are the very people who created the difficulties that have this country and every Department in the position they find themselves today, namely, trying to find savings. I listened very carefully to what speakers had to say last night and to what Deputy Healy-Rae had to say this evening, and I find it unbelievable to think that people would have such neck to stand up here after the damage they have done to the country and the huge legacy they have left our children to bear over the coming generations. Less than a year after the general election, they stand up here and talk about the future plight of the country and what the children of Ireland have to put up with. It is unbelievable, disingenuous and wrong-----

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