Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Our economy does not have a hope. I will use an analogy so that people might understand. If I as a human being am an economy with an arm, a leg and another arm, namely, household debt, national debt and corporate debt, and if people are telling me that the national debt is sustainable while ignoring the smashed condition of the household debt and the non-financial corporate debt, this body as an economy does not have the capacity to generate the incomes to repay and repair all of those elements. That is a fact. Please, will you get this message across?