Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When people from communities such as Annagry and Dunkineely come to the constituency office of the Minister of State and ask him about paragraph 6.4 on page 28 of the Fine Gael manifesto dealing with enhanced community policing, will his response be that the Fianna Fáil Party blew the boom and it is all its fault? That is the reason for the drop in the polls. People are sick of that one-liner.

We lost 53 seats at the last election, but the Fine Gael Party in government is now being judged on its actions, given the commitments it made. Senator Susan O'Keeffe who was referring to the bad memory of those in Fianna Fáil was thrown off course when we asked her about Sligo hospital. There are many similar instances