Michael Conaghan (Dublin South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am just looking at page six of one of the reports, which indicates that Ireland scores above the EU average for six out of ten Single Business Act for Europe, SBA, principles. If that is the case, I find some of the comments today extremely negative. It is as if people are speaking in an abstract context and the economy has not been severely wounded. People should put in some sort of context what they are saying and reflecting upon. The figures make a different argument so rather than talking in abstract terms about an economy that has come through a period of self-inflicted wounding, there might be more to the argument.