Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

No party got it right with respect to the international downturn, including Fine Gael, Labour or ourselves. The Opposition's arguments are very flawed. We are currently on the path to securing recovery and we are not involved in personality politics. We have seen some of the happenings in the past couple of days which clearly come from personality politics. In the past number of years the Opposition wanted to be all things to all men and women but they would have prolonged the pain rather than shorten the difficulties.

Over the past two years we have shown that we are prepared to take the necessary decisions. We are repairing the banking system and restoring public finances. We are regaining competitiveness.

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