Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are going backwards now. We are reducing standards so that people can live on top of one another. We are creating the social crises of the future instead of deciding that we are going to fix the problem with the same determination and absolute will used to address the economic crisis from 2011 onwards. I do not believe that the Taoiseach understands the issue and I am convinced that he does not have the will to solve it.

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