Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit and ULA candidate for Dun Laoghaire said
"The posturing by Fine Gael and the Labour Party over the Finance Bill almost puts Fianna Fail and the Greens to shame. The Finance Bill gives legal effect to the budget. Therefore you can’t be against the budget and at time express a willingness to ‘facilitate’ it passing through the Dail in a week. This is utter hypocrisy.

The Finance Bill 2011 puts into legal effect the measures that were passed by the Dail in late December of last year. All the major establishment parties, including the Labour party, want this bill passed immediately and have expressed willingness to facilitate this in the coming days.

Nicola Curry is a working mother of two who recently returned to education at UCD as a mature student. She qualified with a degree in social science, specialising in social policy. She also received a Masters Degree last year.