I have no confidence in this Government. I never had confidence in this Government. Over the years, I have watched as the concerns of ordinary people and workers take a back seat so Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can please big businesses, lobbyists and vulture funds. The thing that gets to me is the unfairness of it all. Thousands of children are homeless. At the same time, we have seen this Government throwing families to the wolves with its rent hike Bill. We have seen houses and apartment blocks being snapped up by vulture funds that pay little or not tax and then rent them to hard-working people at outrageous prices. Families in my constituency are struggling with their ESB bills. Elderly people are terrified to turn on their heating because of the cost. Meanwhile, in Clonshaugh, there are data centres paying half of what households do for their electricity. How is that fair? We had promises from the Government of a cost-of-disability payment and for an end to the means test for carer's allowance. Those are more broken promises. Instead, the Government left them worse off after the budget. What ever happened to standing up for the people who get up early in the morning? Do we remember that phrase, of which Fine Gael was so fond? Those people got nothing. I cannot be the only TD in Dublin Bay North who is hearing about the unfairness of it all. I am sure the Deputies from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and Deputy Heneghan, are hearing it, too. If they are, I must ask them if they care. People want a Government that will listen to them and will make decisions to make their lives easier. As usual, we have too little too late, with half measures coming from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, all backed by the so-called regional Independents, including people such as Deputy Heneghan, who is in my constituency. He told voters he would be an independent voice and would be free from party restrictions. The reality is that he and the rest of the Lowry lackeys take their orders from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

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They are still giving the two fingers to the ordinary people. I do not have confidence in Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael and I do not have confidence in the so-called Independents.

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Ah, pipe down.

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