Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sinn Féin is not going to object to a Bill that puts some money in some people's pockets, even if the sum is paltry, but the general approach would not be ours. My attitude is that it is better than nothing, but that is about it. The Labour Party should be ashamed, but we have stopped expecting that as they hang on for dear life to government hoping that somehow, by the time the election is called, people will have forgotten what they did in previous budgets and the great promises they made on which they did not deliver.

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