Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is no way to deal with any kind of legislation, certainly not legislation as important as the Bill before us. To our cost, the State's citizens have learned that rushed legislation is bad legislation.

The test of the Government's machinations and their outcomes will be whether our citizens benefit, whether communities and low and middle-income families struggling under the burden of the Government's austerity policies will be better off, whether we will finally see a real jobs initiative and-----

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