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

The fact of the matter is that Sinn Féin has no interest in pensioners. It has no interest in people in receipt of social welfare benefits and I will tell Deputy Brady why. After the last general election with a weakened Deputy Enda Kenny looking for support, Sinn Féin could have approached him and said, "Look, we want to do all those wonderful things that we are talking about", and the door would have been wide open to it, but Sinn Féin did not. Deputy Michael McGrath, my colleague, said Sinn Féin prefer to remain as hurlers on the ditch but I prefer to think of you as snipers behind the ditch. That is Sinn Féin's role, and that is in its character.

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