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

-----states that we should not have tabled this motion and that we should not be engaging in a debate on it is quite farcical. We were accused of playing politics with the protection of life during pregnancy Bill, with the economy and with the property tax. I recall that Fine Gael opposed the four-year plan introduced prior to the most recent general election with the greatest vigour and valour it could muster. It is now actually implementing all of the provisions in that plan and blaming us for introducing it. That is brazen, brass-neck politics. When those opposite were on this side of the House, they promised that they would renegotiate everything.

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