Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accuses Taoiseach Simon Harris of failing his way to the top of the Government and calls for a change of leadership and government.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said Taoiseach Simon Harris has"failed" his way to the top of the Government .
Discussing Mr Harris's record in office before the vote to nominate him as the next Taoiseach, she said:"Not so long ago, Simon Harris was the minister for health and on his watch hospital overcrowding spun out of control, the trolley crisis escalated and the treatment waiting list hit one million patients for the very first time".
"The narrative we hear today from Government is a fairy tale so egregious that Hans Christian Andersen himself would be proud of it." She added:"If you really believe that your Government has the support of the people, then you should go before the people and get that mandate.""Fianna Fáil refused to vote confidence in Simon Harris as minister for health in 2020 - it caused an election, if you all recall. Today, they dutifully line up to vote him in as Taoiseach, joined at the hip by a group of independent TDs," she said.
"Unfortunately, from what we have heard so far, his elevation today will not deliver the change that we need," she told the Dail. "We are facing serious challenges as a country, and in order to address them we need new ideas - for that we need a new Government," she said.
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