Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

When the Government came into office 18 months ago there was a deficit of €20 billion. There are many health issues this Government would like to tackle, and nobody is denying people are suffering because of mortgage debt, unemployment etc. If we had the type of resources that Fianna Fáil had when it was in government over the past 18 years, we would now have an entirely different country.

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