Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

To insert the following after “calls on the Government to”:

“— reinstate the Specific Improvement Grants to local authorities this year;

— prioritise, with their partners in the confidence and supply agreement, the funding of local and regional roads in Budget 2019, to ensure that the commitment made under the Programme for a Partnership Government to increase funding to local and regional roads by 50 per cent is honoured.”

I never cease to be amazed at the games that Fianna Fáil plays. It never ceases to amaze me and I have been here for just under two years. When I refer to games, I refer to the game of pretending to be an Opposition party. One could be forgiven for thinking that Fianna Fáil has not spent almost two years in a confidence and supply arrangement with Fine Gael or that it has not allowed two budgets to pass, and here we are this evening, crying about it.

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