Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
1:15 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I regret that Opposition members have withdrawn from proceedings in what is a political stunt. Let us consider the disastrous situation in which Fianna Fáil left the country. When that party left office, Ireland had a deficit of 32.5% of GDP - the worst in the world. It was not Somalia, South Sudan or Zimbabwe which had this deficit; it was Ireland under the rule of Fianna Fáil.