Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I would like to think that we would have a motion tabled here that would provide an opportunity for the Minister for Finance, for two and a half hours at the end of this series of statements, to answer questions about the impending and current economic crisis, which affects everybody and which everybody wants to play their part in getting out of. How in hell can we get out of it if we do not know the scale of just what it is we face into? The Taoiseach has that evidence but he will not tell us and he expects us to speak over the next two days on a debate that is meaningless when we do not have the fiscal and economic parameters of what it is that we face. Therefore, I reject the proposal before us.

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