Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We lost the vote but the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, lost a colleague. She is losing colleagues on a regular basis. We know we will not win the vote on this motion, but I assure her that when she meets the people on the streets, they will tell her they feel betrayed by the Labour Party. There is no point in it claiming the challenges are huge. It knew about these inordinate challenges when it gave its commitments.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is now taking credit for implementing the programme which his party claimed was the worst thing that could ever happen.

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