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

In other words, we are witnessing the marginalisation of the social policy committee and dimension in the budgetary programme. It is very much a Fine Gael orthodoxy which is moving more to the right day by day. The extraordinary point is that the Labour Party is poodling along with this orientation. The Government has a right-wing approach. The Taoiseach may smile, but it is a fact.

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