Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

——by providing resources to recruit more gardaí and more teachers. There are now 14,000 gardaí and 12,000 teachers. There is also an extensive programme of capital investment. I assure Deputy Rabbitte that we will continue to work with the same determination we have always shown. Deputy Rabbitte will continue in Opposition, as he has done for most of his political life, growling about these issues. We will continue to work successfully. If Deputy Rabbitte ever gets his way, I will wish him well in it. In the meantime, however, you should acknowledge, as you never do, anything that has successfully been done anywhere. You are by nature, a negative person with negative policies.

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