Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes but, Mr. Ahern, in this speech at Treasury Buildings, you yourself acknowledge the difficulties facing the construction sector. You said, "This is why in last week's budget we introduced these measures." You go on to say, "To provide a significant stimulus to the market [which is the construction market]," and you go on to say that, "These measures taken together testify to the Government's commitment to the continuing development of this sector." You're after giving evidence saying that you wanted to see a decline in the number of house price ... or houses from 2006 on and you tried to do that. But you're giving a different speech to Johnny Ronan and a number of others in December 2007, which is saying that your Government are introducing measures to actually boost demand at that time.