Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

We will not defer the corrective action that is necessary now because we know from bitter experience under Administrations of which Deputy Kenny was a member that deferring corrective action only exacerbates the problem. The position of the Opposition is that it has a finance spokesman who says I spent too much, yet Deputy Kenny and everyone else say I spent too little. Fine Gael has policies that are meant to exacerbate the problem, not correct it.

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