Members of the newly former technical group in the Dáil have were critical of the programme for government ahead of Enda Kenny’s election as Taoiseach.
Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins, one of three appointed speakers for the group of 16 TDs, opposed Mr Kenny's nomination.
Mr Higgins claimed the Fine Gael-Labour programme for government was a "grotesque betrayal" of the democratic revolution of the people.
"A vote for Deputy Kenny as Taoiseach is a vote not for revolution, not for change, but for counter-revolution and more of the same," he said.
He warned the programme of "savage austerity" would not go unchallenged.
Independent TD Shane Ross, also a member of the technical group, said he was deeply discouraged when he read the programme for government. He said there was no vision in it.
"There were so many reviews, there were so many fudges, that we do not exactly know what they're promising at all," he said. "Except that they will be the government in the next few years and they will stick together come hell or high water."
Mr Ross said he feared the promises of change would be empty and were already disappearing.
Richard Boyd Barrett, of People Before Profit and the ULA, said the grouping would not be voting for Mr Kenny. He criticised Labour for signing up to a coalition that will axe 25,000 public sector jobs and introduce water charges.
"The pledge of the United Left Alliance is to support those groups in society who through no fault of their own are now being targeted with job losses, and now being targeted with brutal cuts that will put families under," he said.
Separately, Sinn Féin Dáil leader Gerry Adams said his party could not support Mr Kenny but that he respected the mandate he had received and wished him well.
He said Sinn Féin would provide a "robust" opposition in the Dáil.
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