Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

——paint pictures of the stories that are streaming into their offices and clinics on a daily basis, all because the Government has failed to show any kind of competency in saving public money and implementing initiatives that would protect our economy for the future. The Government is not responsible for Lehman Brothers or Merrill Lynch, but it is responsible for wasting hundreds of millions of euro over the last number of years. It continues to preside over this but its members do not want to speak about it in the House. My suggestion to the Taoiseach is that he back up his own words and accept a bipartisan approach. Let us have a debate over the next two days on the economic problems facing the country. We will be happy to return to normal pairing arrangements if that applies.

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