Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Nothing angers and frustrates people more than seeing wastage of public money. Of course, the litany of overspends and wastages under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is endless. We could go back to the electronic voting machines; the €150 million spent on the MetroLink, which still does not a have a timeframe; NAMA giveaways; and projects with seemingly unlimited budgets and zero accountability. After each such controversy, the Government says that lessons have been learned. Perhaps the Tánaiste could tell us what lessons the Government intends to learn from a bike shelter that cost €336,000 or a security hut that fleeced the Irish people of €1.5 million. Is the lesson simply that Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael cannot build hospitals, houses or even bike shelters without squandering taxpayers' money and that they are incapable of protecting the Irish people from such wastage?

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