Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would be grateful if Deputy Healy would allow me to respond to Deputy Boyd Barrett. He would have magically found €2.2 billion in the teeth of the recession when the only people giving us money were the troika which would have, of course, ponied up that sort of money. He thinks that was feasible but that just was not the case. What we are about now is, in an orderly fashion, trying to ensure that workers across the public sector get their money back in as fair and as expeditious a way as is consistent with maintaining the economic viability of the State. I have said-----