Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

What does Deputy McDonald say? She says Government wants to take the shackles off the big funds, which is a great sound bite. She says she has asked the Government to stop screwing things up. When asked about Sinn Féin's alternative plan, it is to enable the builders to just get out and build. What a fantastic plan. What a really detailed plan that is really going to get things going, is it not? Then, of course, she condemns the vultures and cuckoos but, meanwhile, Deputy Ó Broin will meet with them and will recognise the role of institutional investors in his attempts to be super-cerebral in discussing these issues. However, Deputy McDonald will come in and go on about cuckoos and vulture funds because it plays well to what she considers to be her base.

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