Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

——and nobody prepared to say anything to anybody or utter anything in front of a microphone.

Great discussion, great consideration, great deliberation is being done by Government about the financial affairs of the State and now that we come to this point where we will debate it in the Dáil there are no proposals from the Government, no announcement of what decisions have been made, and no background information provided as to the options that have been considered by the Government or on the information on the public finances. We are told that there is some kind of a framework document that has been presented for discussion with the social partners which does not contain any specifics, but even that document has not been released and made available to us——

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