Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I have spent the most recent part of my 26 years listening to quotes from Oscar Wilde. If you, a Chathaoirligh, ever read a book of quotes from Oscar Wilde, you will not be as entertained by those quotes as you would be by the quotes of the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy and the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, throughout the general election campaign which saw them returned to govern for another five years on a tissue of lies. We were told there would be no cutbacks by several Ministers who have been rewarded for telling lies by being appointed to those Ministries. The bright eyed boy from Cork South-Central, Deputy Micheál Martin, told Cathal Mac Coille that there would not be cutbacks.