Jimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State. We all know that the task we faced today would have been a difficult one for any Government. Senator MacSharry said that he defended the previous Government when he sat over here. He defended that Government's policies, whereas we are defending a budget that has had to be introduced to clean up after those policies. He must have been confused by the Shakespearean rhetoric that came over him. He portrayed it as being more like a Shakespearean tragedy. I have two sons who are working in London. Fianna Fáil sent them to London. I want them back to work here. Fianna Fáil destroyed the economy. As a result, my sons and other people's sons had to leave Ireland to go to England, America and Australia. I want them back.