Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----at which there was brilliant applause and they all laughed and clapped at his jokes? Was it he who was introduced by the Minister fjor finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, as Ireland's leading altogether decent person, who had castigated RTE, the public sector, bus workers and practically everybody else, or was it Tom Parlon? There is one measure the Taoiseach introduced for which he has to answer. Nobody had advocated for a first-time buyer's grant. The housing committee had not done so, yet Tom Parlon apparently did and he gets what he wants. It will not even apply to cheaper second-hand homes for young people.

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