Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no doubt that this debate has again seen an extraordinary display of arrogance by the government parties. Speaker after speaker has continued the farce that we have seen for two weeks in this Chamber, the farce of self-congratulation. The Government was ridiculed last night on the six o'clock news for that. If it had wanted us to engage in that type of debate we could have recounted to the Irish public, at length, the broken promises, U-turns, election lies and endless spin in which it engaged.

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