Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

There will be no extra borrowing for current spending. This is fairy-tale stuff. It is Lapland economics. It is as though they are going to write to Santa and all will be delivered on Christmas morning. It just does not work like that. That is why the strategy being put forward by this Government, which some people continue to fail to recognise, is about stabilising the economy and the banking sector and investing in infrastructure. The buzz word all over the world is "stimulus package". We have had our own stimulus package here for many years. It is called the national development plan. We are on our second or third version of it.

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