Brian Walsh (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Sinn Féin Members present are speaking out of both sides of their mouths on this issue. They have one rule in the North of Ireland and one rule down South. If their advice had been followed when this Government came to office, they would have transformed the prevailing economic crisis into a humanitarian crisis and we would have seen on the streets what we are witnessing now in Greece.

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