Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I compliment Deputy Fitzpatrick on his honesty because he really tried to lash the AAA-PBP out of it by stating he does not agree with the move of his Minister to freeze the charges. He does not agree and he believes everybody is happy to recycle, that there should not be a problem and that the AAA-PBP is creating imaginary problems because we do not wish to be positive in anything but are negative about everything. That is the real sentiment of Fine Gael and I note the colour of the Deputy's shirt is a deep blue, whereas the colour of the tie of his colleague sitting below him is a pale blue. I refer to the people who speak nicely to us and try to tell us they agree with Deputy Smith or are glad that Deputy Smith brought this matter to their attention and so on. Indeed, the kowtowing or the Cowen-towing of colleagues from Fianna Fáil was quite similar. It was all very nice, all polite gentlemen, all talking to the gentleman, so called, in the waste management industry and getting on well with them and getting agreements with them that they would freeze things and would not touch people and would do this, that and the other. It probably is because you know these gentlemen in the waste management industry a little more than personally, that there are relations of whatever sort, political, financial or economic, that go between the major parties and industries.

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