The ordinary working people.
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He did not like that.
Sentiment score: -0.28
There are a million workers-----
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Is the only way-----
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Arrogance personified.
Sentiment score: -0.53
You went on holidays when it was happening.
Sentiment score: 0.38
You failed.
Sentiment score: -0.51
Has the Minister of State woken up? I wondered where he was.
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Hear, hear.
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For all the Government's arrogance and backslapping, the truth that Ministers have not divulged is that their TDs are under more pressure today than they have been in a political lifetime. This pressure is not coming from Sinn Féin or any other party but it is coming from their constituents. Yes, Sinn Féin tabled the no confidence motion but we are just the messengers.
Sentiment score: -0.05
The message has been sent loud and clear; the Government has failed and it has lost the trust of the people.
Sentiment score: 0.08
It refused to listen or to acknowledge the financial pressures faced by workers, carers, people with disabilities and families. It ignored small businesses, farmers, contractors, bus drivers, hauliers and virtually everyone else. It introduced a budget that made people worse off and then it had to be dragged kicking and screaming to act, and when it did it introduced half measures. Those who have been making their voices heard are the salt of the earth. I have spoken to them. They are hard-working people, most of whom had never protested before in their lives. They were the same people we turned to when the parties in government crashed the economy. They were the people who lost businesses and then rebuilt them. They are the people who went without meals in order to save their farms and their homes because the Government bailed out the banks instead. They are the backbone of the domestic economy, the lifeline of every town, village and rural community in the State, and their voices have been heard loud and clear. The question today is whether the Government has listened. Is Teachtaí Dala muid. When the revolutionary generation established the first Dáil it made a significant decision. Elected representatives would not simply be titled "Members of Parliament". Instead, those returned by voters would be given not so much a title but an obligation as Teachtaí Dala, messengers of the people. Today is the day for every Member of the House to bring the message of the people to this Government. Will Fianna Fáil TDs bring the message they have been receiving from their constituents? Will Fine Gael TDs do so? What about the Independents, those who pretend to be champions of the people? Will they act in the interests of those who elected them or will they act in their own self-interest? The truth is that if TDs are to live up to the promise of those who established an chéad Dáil, and if they are to fulfil the pledge to be messengers of the people, then this Government will be gone tonight. It is time to pick a side. They are either on the side of those whom they pledged to represent or they are on the side of this debacle of a Government. I will be bringing the message of my constituents to the Dáil this evening. I will be voting no confidence in this shambolic Government.
Sentiment score: 0.06