Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

That is the sort of financial rectitude and management that Fine Gael, Labour, the Green Party and others are bringing to this debate. It is well past a reasonable time for certain people to spell out how they are going to spend the people's money and explain why they are unhappy with how we are spending the resources of the people. This is the most dynamic economy in the world. It is one of the most socially cohesive and successful countries in the world. It is a country of challenges, the great challenges of a very successful economy. We no longer have to deal with the challenges of failure, the legacy of failure through which Fine Gael and Labour led this country for three decades. On each occasion, Fianna Fáil had to come back into Government not alone to sort out the mess they left but also to develop this country.

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