Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----there is only a certain amount of money the State can provide. To be fair, any sensible and thoughtful person would recognise that we need to have money coming into the coffers of the Exchequer to pay for the services, hospitals and gardaí that Senators come in here every day to speak about.Let us be fair. Fianna Fáil cannot be all things to all people. Look where that got it in 2010. That is the bottom line.