Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

I am building up to the question and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to contribute. I wish to raise a fundamental question. Does the Leader agree that the people have lost trust in the Government and are angry at the lack of leadership? I ask the Leader to bring the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, not to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party room, but to this House because it is high time we had political accountability in this and the other House. Who knows what? Who is in charge? Who has been in charge of the Financial Regulator for the past 12 years? The people are sick and tired of low standards in high places. It is time we put people in jail. That is not populism, it is reality. The Leader should come out to the streets of Cork South-Central with me any day of the week, where people are sick and tired of him and his cronies getting away with everything. That is genuine. The people are tired of Fianna Fáil and its cronyism and cosy cartels, and it should stop.