Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----to the speakers; I suspect they owe more to people such as Leon Trotsky than they owe to Connolly.

At the time of the last election, the Labour Party went to the people and asked for a mandate - as did the members of the Fine Gael Party - to put this country straight, recover its economic independence and sovereignty and make changes.

That is what the Labour Party signed up to do and what it intends to do. That is what the Labour Party has promised to do for the people of Ireland, as has Fine Gael in terms of Government. Does everybody in Fianna Fáil get on with everybody else every day?

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