Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They are offering no alternative to a Government that in some of the toughest of times in our modern history has worked successfully with the Irish people to deliver sustained progress on key issues and has put in place the policies to deliver much more during the rest of the term of our mandate.

We are having this debate today because the Labour Party decided it needed to do something to get attention.

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