Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

No, there is not. Every programme for Government, including the one negotiated by Deputy Lowry prior to Deputy Bruton's brother becoming Taoiseach, has a covering budgetary context in which it is achieved. This is no different in this programme for Government. A programme would be meaningless if it did not have such a covering budgetary parameter which confirms what will be done in the context of the growth the Government seeks to achieve. Without this, Deputy Bruton's contentions are meaningless. It is the budgetary context——

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