Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)

I appreciate that my time might be brief, due to the interruptions that came from the other side of the House, but I have to reject an allegation that was made by some of the Independent speakers, when they spoke about the children of this country, the young people of this country and the future of this country. I would like to say on my own behalf and on behalf of the Government that every ounce of energy and every act that we commit while steering this country forward is for our children and for the young people of this country. We are doing this to provide them with proper health care, jobs, social welfare if they need it and to restore to the young people of this country the economic sovereignty and independence that was removed by virtue of the last Government led by Fianna Fáil, in whose name this motion is tabled, and the self-motivated Independent TDs who supported them in government.

There are very difficult choices that every one of our Ministers has to take. The backbench Government TDs have the bottle to deliver on the mandate we were given by the Irish people to restore-----

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