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

The Government parties are in office for three years. The Minister of State decided after the event that we should have a debate. We should have had a debate prior to it. He should have come into the House three months ago when he said we had plenty of room to reduce taxes and the Government would give people whatever lollipop they wanted before the next election. The Labour Party did the same before the last election. Its members said they would people anything they wanted and they put that on triangular notices.

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