Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In Fianna Fáil's scramble to distance itself from promises it had made to the troika such as a property tax, it has left the last scraps of its dignity behind, exposing the full breadth of its naked self-interest. The Government - every one of the Members who sit on these benches - is in this fight for a reason. We are moving forward, day by day, taking the steps that will stabilise the finances, get the economy moving, businesses hiring and us out of the bailout programme. The alternative proposed would have us moving backwards. We are taking the decisions that will stop the Exchequer haemorrhaging money. The parties opposite are bottling it. We are laying the foundations for a recovery that will last. The parties opposite are playing a short-term political game.

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