Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

What is most disturbing about this week's announcement is that the triumvirate, the three Ministers in charge of the economy, do not realise what is going on in the real world. They have now woken up to the need for Ireland to articulate a new strategy, taking it in a different direction, that will reinvent the economy. In addition, it would reform public services, tackle inflationary problems and address the decline in competitiveness with which we have struggled and which is causing business to shed labour.

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