Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is why Senator Whelan said what he said. He said the Tánaiste had made a liar out of him, and he wrote it in yesterday's The Star newspaper.

I asked the Tánaiste a very basic question which he skirted around. I repeat: why was the Fine Gael promise not to increase taxes on people earning more than €100,000 more important than the promises made by the Labour Party? The Tánaiste went out before the election, looked people in the eye and said that his party would not agree to cut child benefit. He then went into government and cynically stood over that cut.

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