Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is confirmed in reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy Spring last week. Coming in here at this late hour and offering us very erudite reasons why it could not be done and why one could only do it from last Saturday is a load of old nonsense. The fact of the matter is that none of the Opposition parties took the job of Opposition seriously enough to do a serious job of preparing proposals and having them properly costed.

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