Deputies tainted with hypocrisy

MIND-BOGGLING is the only way to describe the hypocrisy of Fianna Fáil backbenchers.

Despite voicing trenchant criticism of cuts in community job schemes, when it came down to the wire in the Dáil yesterday, they voted en bloc against holding a debate on the future of the project and the need to create 5,000 extra jobs.

Obviously, the threat of a mini-revolt by 40 backbenchers was purely for the optics.