Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Neither manifesto was accepted in full. The Fine Gael Party came back to the other House with 76 or 77 seats and the Labour Party had 36 or 37 seats. We then came together in a coalition, which involves debate, discussion, agreement and making choices. We are taking responsibility. I ask Senator MacSharry to be serious and to pluck up something rather than to seek to embarrass the Labour Party. He knows that although we have a particular view on taxation, that did not form the full Government view. The Fianna Fáil Party then wants people to believe it has credibility in advancing such a proposal when it did not do so three years ago. That is the reason I put it to him that he cannot have any credibility in saying that we should do something now when we know it was not his view prior to the election. Let us wait and see whether Fianna Fáil’s next set of proposals-----