Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

She is completely hypocritical about it in that her party's MEPs will come home and say "We can't have this. We can't make contributions for that service but we'll write documents in Europe and vote for them and say 'We should make contributions for some of the services that we have'." Of course, the general population here might not be aware of that. As the deputy leader of her party, therefore, she is opposed to Europe. She does not want anything to do with Europe. She is quite happy to see European involvement here and European contributions for the benefit of Ireland. She sends out her MEPs and they still oppose everything except contributions for services.

Deputy McDonald mentioned social protection and social services and, of course, we will defend our national interests. We will defend and hopefully promote the way we have evolved social services here and the way we have maintained the extent of contributions through social services despite the economic recession of recent years. However, I would say this to Deputy McDonald. She comes in here with all this pious goodness.

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