Ahern in war of words with 'nitwit' socialist TD Higgins
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern lost his temper in the Dáil this morning during an exchange with Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins regarding the cost of housing.
Mr Higgins told the Dáil that the cost of buying a house was now beyond most working people and that Fianna Fáil, which receives vast sums of money from developers, was not doing anything to tackle the problem.
Mr Ahern hit back by saying the Government had done more than any other administration in the history of the state in the area of social and affordable housing.
He then launched a string of insults on Mr Higgins and his socialist policies.
"You have a failed ideology, you have the most hopeless policy that I ever heard pursued by any nitwit," Mr Ahern said.
"You are a failed person, you were rejected and your political philosophy has been rejected and you're not going to pull people back into the failed old policies that you dreamt up in south Kerry when you were a young fella.
"Now go away."
