Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

That is just to make that point. In no way does it take from the merit or demerits of any aspect of any Comptroller and Auditor General's report under any Government and that will continue in the years ahead. Any lessons to be learned from it have to be learned. That is the simple point I was making. Deputy Kenny continually contends that the record of this Government is something that did not exist at all and that suddenly we now have the real situation.

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