Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Let me address the issue of why my predecessor, former Deputy Ruairí Quinn, had to make very difficult decisions in the early years of the last Government. It was because of Fianna Fáil destroying the country. It was due to the troika deal which meant that every Department had to slash expenditure, whether it liked it or not.

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