Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the reality. Sinn Féin accuses Fianna Fáil of having abdicated its responsibility. The people who abdicated responsibility are the people who ran away at the first sign of responsibility. Instead of availing of the opportunity to approach a very weakened Fine Gael Party and offer it their support on condition that its policies were implemented Sinn Féin disappeared and waited until a Government was formed and then crawled out from under its rock to criticise it.

In so far as this Bill is concerned, there are measures in it which I do not particularly like.

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