Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

Aontú want to give people confidence in the delivery of public infrastructure. This confidence has been radically eroded by the lack of Government prudence and the lack of Government ability to hold the system to account. A Minister tasked a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that has happened. Some €300 million has been spent on the metro north system and there has not been even a shovel put into the ground. Down in Midleton we have old people working as human water gauges trying to look at the amount of water that is rising in the rivers there to ensure it does not inundate families and cause people to get killed because Governments have spent millions of euro and still have not even got a planning application for the flood defences there. We also have the massive increase in spending that is happening in the budgets at the moment. We have had Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael engaged in pre-election auction politics at their ard-fheiseanna. We have a system where the Government dresses itself up in fiscal prudence, yet is wasting hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money.

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