Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

Small business representatives stated today that 48% of them could not get credit last year, and that this has risen to 58% this year. Jobs are being lost all around us and we need to be debating these important issues, highlighting solutions and talking about the Fine Gael jobs plan in this House on a daily basis while we are sitting. There is no need to cut the sittings of this House to two days. If this is the way Fianna Fáil is to run the House, it is unacceptable. It is little wonder people are fed up with the way it is running the country if this is the way this House is being run.