Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While I have already welcomed our improved economic growth, I equally condemn the fact it is a two-tier one. Rural Ireland feels left behind, a fact which the Government continues to fail to address.

We have also witnessed a total failure to reform the political institutions of our State. If anything we have seen the people's trust in our political institutions fall even further under this Government. Stroke politics, cynical politics and politics for the elite is practised by Fine Gael and Labour instead of the new politics they promised us in the 2011 general election.

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