Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Well, of course, it is a political House as Deputy McGrath well knows and make your political points. But, like, for me, politics is first and last about people, and you cannot deal with those on the margins who are vulnerable unless you have a functioning economy. I will go back to the point, Deputy McGrath, indeed, before your time here as a Member. In respect of benchmarking, in respect of the decentralisation programme, the excessive waste, the lack of scrutiny, the extension of tax concessions by the Department of Minister for Finance just like that, that this was not the way to go and that you needed a more controlled more examining structure so that if you had a functioning economy, you could actually deal with those who were clearly out on the margins, vulnerable and-----