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

The strategy will be to prevent a detailed analysis of any serious issue. That is what it is doing on this issue. It does not want the deal to be questioned; nor does it want Labour Party Deputies to become windy over a period of time. Therefore, it is being rammed and run through.

Let us be straight. I would like to test the yardstick that Deputy Costello put when he described this deal as a bargain basement deal.

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