Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has insisted that his party can lead the next Government
Mr Kenny claimed that Fianna Fail are now
"convulsed" with attacking Fine Gael in an effort to distract from the
battle his own party is having with Sinn Fein.
He was reacting to a radio interview in which Mr Martin said the Irish people no longer want Enda Kenny as Taoiseach.
Mr Martin also told RTÉ's Today with Sean O'Rourke programme that Fine Gael's tax policies will damage public service.
Speaking in The Netherlands where he is on a
trade mission, Mr Kenny responded: "Micheal Martin is a direct link to
the party that drove our country off an economic cliff.
"Every single thing that Fianna Fail has done is now a blind of the row they are having with Sinn Fein."
He said the Fine Gael and Labour Party
coalition "have a clear plan and a strategy to fulfil the remit given to
us by the people to fix our public finances and put the country back to
work.
"Fianna Fail has opposed
every one of those measures and what they want to do is go back to the
same old way where they destroyed public services that we are now
rebuilding."
Mr Kenny added: "Fianna Fail's desperation
attack is something that is now beginning to convulsed the party where
for our point of view were have a ver clear perspective where we want to
reduce the taxation burden, create more jobs and then you can have an
engine to drive the economy."
Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil leader Martin has insisted that his party can lead the next Government.
Mr Martin said Fianna Fáil can become the
largest after the forthcoming election. And he stressed the urgent need
to oust Enda Kenny and Fine Gael to restore health and other services.
His
comments come just seven weeks after the party’s director of elections
Billy Kelleher publicly said he expected Fianna Fáil to win about 40
seats on a good day – vastly short of being the biggest party.
In the very strident interview with RTÉ’s
Sean O’Rourke, the Fianna Fáil leader insisted that the opinion polls –
which put them below 20pc and close to their score in the 2011 electoral
meltdown – were understating the party’s support.
Mr
Martin said surveys before the May 2014 general election suggested
Fianna Fáil would be in third place. But in fact they emerged as the
largest party in local councils with 25pc of the vote and 266
councillors.
He also delivered a scathing verdict on
Fine Gael and Enda Kenny. He said they were offering huge tax cuts which
would devastate public services.
Already
the health services were in chaos and there were not enough council
workers to fight against problems like flooding – but the Government
were pledging American-style rates of tax.
“When you have US tax rates – you have US inequality,” Mr Martin insisted.
Mr Martin said Labour had failed to put the brakes on Fine Gael in government – as they had promised.
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