Fine Gael/Labour ‘grubby deal’ with Fianna Fáil to rush Finance Bill through

SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams has said Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and the Greens are cobbling together a “grubby deal” to get the Finance Bill through before the general election:

What the Taoiseach should do now is go to Áras an Úachtarán immediately and seek the dissolution of the Dáil.

The instability must be brought to end.

It appears that there is to be grubby deal between the Establishment parties – Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and the Greens – to get the Finance Bill through before the general election.

The Sinn Féin leader added:

There is no popular support for the measures contained in this Bill which legislates for many of the cuts contained in last December’s Budget.

The Finance Bill published last week should be scrapped.

The ‘Consensus for Cuts’ parties are colluding to deny the people their say on the economic direction of the state.

We need an election now where all parties present their economic alternatives.  We need to let the people decide. There then needs to be a new a Budget and a new Finance Bill.