Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is not an idle comment. The only occasion on which the Deputy's people ran anything was in the 1980s when they ran the city of Liverpool. That city ran out of money. One Friday afternoon, when there was no money to pay the wages of the grave-diggers, the road workers and the other employees of the city of Liverpool, the Deputy's people were obliged to hire taxis to deliver P45s to those individuals.

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