Michael McCarthy (Labour)

The manner in which backbench Deputies nearly jumped out of their seats last October, yet only gave a cautious clap last Tuesday, is the most difficult aspect to accept. What are the Senators on the opposite side of the House telling their constituents? What do Ministers and Government representatives say when they are approached by people whose houses are about to be repossessed, who have lost the early child care supplement, who are paying pension levies or lost their jobs and who have been subjected to the meanest taxation in the form of doubling the income levy?