Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

I was hoping to discuss this issue in a non-partisan way and we were doing so until the Minister of State came into the Chamber. If she wants to continue in that way, so be it, but that is my view three years down the road. This was the first country to enter a bailout programme, but we did not have the experience we are now having. The Labour Party parades itself and claims the last Fianna Fáil Government did not do anything. This is the party which told us during the general election that it would be Frankfurt's way or Labour's way. In the 15 months it has been in government it has been very much Frankfurt's way. We need to see it being Labour's way a little more and to see it putting on the green jersey that it tells us to put on. Is that what the Labour Party really believes or was it just a cheap election slogan to get into power at any cost?

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