Dáil debates

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed)

 

4:30 pm

Photo of Derek NolanDerek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has said the Government has not changed any of the policies it inherited. I remind him that we have a different policy on the banks and a different policy on job creation. We are adjusting the taxation system to make it fairer. The Government has to acknowledge that there is an economy and that the domestic economy, the public sector and other stakeholders need to be looked after. Believe it or not, it has to realise that electoral gain and populism cannot be its driving force. It cannot operate like Sinn Féin, which is exploiting people's fears and using the terrible circumstances families are in as a basis for electoral growth. I have said it before and will say it again - historians will not look back favourably on Sinn Féin when they write about this terrible time in Irish economic history.

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