Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

We will not devastate the economy and create mass unemployment to reach our targets, which is all that the Green Party offers. The Deputy cannot sustain his position of not building infrastructure to maintain competitiveness and jobs, retain foreign direct investment and maintain our position in Europe and the global economy and balance it as we do.

I attended the Environment Ministers' Transport Council and dealt with the environmental initiatives, to which I subscribe. We were a leading party in that respect and will continue to be so, but we will not be caught on the wrong side by simple rhetoric because rhetoric has never achieved anything.

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