Confidence in Government: Motion
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-29
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I know the Labour Party does not have confidence in this Government, but it seems to me that it has long lost confidence in itself. It does not know whether to stand over its decisions in government, and say it would do it all again for the good of the country if given the chance, or whether like a character from The Crucible , it should deny its own truth, recant, confess, and purge itself of its past in the hope of being embraced back into the fold by the wider left, to spare itself more fire. It is caught in a trap of its own making. It was in government not too long ago. It held the housing and public expenditure briefs for five of the past 12 years.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-29