Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

Like the other speakers, I can hardly believe this motion is before us tonight. How can Fianna Fáil Members even think of putting such a thing on paper? This is the party that led us to the bailout by the troika and the horrendous mismanagement of the banks. This is directly why there have had to be serious cuts of €750 million to our health budget. When the Fianna Fáil Government had money, it threw it around like confetti and it was not used correctly. Deputy McHugh went into some of the detail of that a few minutes ago, so there is no need for me to go into it again.

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