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“You should be ashamed”: Pat Rabbitte attacks government on Prime Time

“You can do no more damage to this country.” Pat Rabbitte sticks it to a shocked Pat Carey.

Screen grab taken from RTE's Prime Time
Screen grab taken from RTE's Prime Time

OPPOSITION POLITICIANS HAVE been reacting angrily to news of Ireland’s impending IMF bailout.

But none quite so eloquently as Labour party deputy Pat Rabbitte TD on RTE’s Prime Time programme last night.

Directing his comments at a stunned Minister for Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, he said:

You should be ashamed to show your face in the studio after what you have brought our country to penury, and the damage that you have done to people’s livelihoods…You have destroyed this economy.

You denied it and then you went on to pretend it was Ireland coming to the rescue of Europe. It’s about time you went, because you can do no more damage to this country.

It’s the fault of the Irish government and you ought to be ashamed of where you have brought us.

Carey insisted he was not ashamed, and accused Rabbitte of polemic.


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  • Jennifer, you’re missing a ‘LIKE’ button here. Can you oblige? ;)

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  • It doesn’t matter who anyone votes for what matters is that we do not reward failure, waste and corruption by votin Fianna Fail in again, like we have in the past. I wonder have we finally grown as a nation and stop voting for tradition and and inherited political biases.

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  • There’s nothing that FG or Labour ever called for over the past 10 years that would have changed anything one iota. They weren’t calling for stronger regulation of the banks. Every cat and dog in town knew that Anglo were lending big time to developers but none of the parties were screaming stop. While Rabbite is great at the rhetoric, Joan Burton would be a economic disaster if she ever got near the purse strings of the country.

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  • Fianna Fail are traitors to the country. The buck stops at Brian Cownes desk, both as leader of the country and for his incompetence as the previous minister for finance. This idiot was in the positions to know what was going on within the banks and the building industry. But that was the problem with Fianna Fail they were bed buddies with the bankers and the big multi-million contractors and decided to turn a blind eye to the whole fiasco.

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  • I vote Labour :D

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  • well i wouldn’t vote labour if a gun was to my head.

    Wake up people, the country as a whole is angry and Pat is using this for his own and labours interests. As a union offical Rabbitte shut down more companys and lost more jobs, its well know nin the west of Ireland than when PR came into a company during his union days (by the way he has never held down a real job) the company would fold as mgt could not or would not get a deal with the unions when PR was there rep.

    We need a hero, we need a change but Pat Rabbitte and Happy Gilmore are not what this country needs….

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  • Pat Rabbitte said during his rant last night that the next government would be strait-jacketed for the next three to five years because of what’s happening now.

    I’ve been wondering about this. Does this mean that Pat doesn’t think there’s a point in having an election because there’ll be no actual power to win?

    Does Pat Rabbitte want a National Government, a grand coalition, for a Dáil term or two, until the IMF process is run through and we can return to politics as usual (even though it’s politics as usual that got us in Skid Row in the first place?)

    Or did he not think it through at all and was just blowing off steam, like Eamon Dunphy ranting about Andy Reid? I’d really like to know.

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  • I think I’m going to vote Labour next time out.

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