The Fine Gael leader, Michael Noonan, has launched a stinging attack on the Government at a special conference on health in Co Clare this evening.
Mr Noonan told the conference that the Irish Government is incompetent and has squandered our economic boom in one of the strongest attacks the opposition leader has delivered since taking over leadership of the party.
He told the conference that he considered it his party’s responsibility to destroy the image of this Government of being competent.