Denis Landy (Labour)

It is very difficult for us to sit here and listen to these so-called passionate speeches about people and poverty when the opportunity is given to the same party to govern in Northern Ireland and yet it has adopted a completely different attitude towards property tax there. These things need to be said. It is important to be honest with the people. Who is to say if the same party were in government down here that it would not implement the policy it currently follows in Northern Ireland?