James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Troy is obviously reading the same speech that his colleague in the Seanad read. On behalf of Senator Leyden, Senator Paschal Mooney, a gentleman, made a point about comparing the figures in this country with the figures in the United Kingdom - clearly, two very different countries. As I said to him, the United Kingdom is in a far better financial position than we have been over the past number of years because it did not have the benefit of a Fianna Fáil Government for 14 years, and to ignore that is to ignore why we had to ask the Irish people to make the sacrifices that they made.

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