Phil Prendergast (Labour)

I want to pick up on some points made by Senator Ó Domhnaill who praised the existing system. This motion is about a worsening of the system. What point was the Senator making? Was he welcoming these cutbacks?

The Green Party attacked the Labour Party over something that happened long before I was a member of the party. It has no relevance today or to what has happened now. We have had such unprecedented wealth and boom that it has become so clichéd it is almost sickening. While the Labour Party might have started that process, it did not squander it or make matters worse.