John Gilroy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I was beginning to wonder whether I was still in the Seanad Chamber or had suddenly found myself at the Kilkenomics comedy festival or something. The argument from Fianna Fáil, particularly from Senator MacSharry, to whom I have been listening for five years, seems to be that when Fianna Fáil was in government the Opposition decried calls for increased public spending and now that we are in government Fianna Fáil is saying something else. It seems that when Fianna Fáil is in government it is in opposition, and now that it is in opposition it seems to be in government. Senator MacSharry's analysis has very little to do with any piece of reality at all.