Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

We want the Taoiseach to tell the House what he will do to address the issue instead of presenting all these coded messages and pretending that we will get the figures tomorrow, following which the Government will address what it is going to do. Is he trying to tell us that the Government has not been addressing this issue for quite some time? It is incredible that he does not know, in general terms at least, the steps that will be taken, the programmes that will be hit and the expenditure that will be pared back. We are seeing some of this in practice.

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