John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Developing these proposals will require the Labour Party and Fine Gael to be honest with the electorate and workers. It will require them to acknowledge there is no painless way to secure Ireland's future in the current global economic crisis. We in the Green Party are brave and honest enough to say that. Moreover, we are confident that our role in Government will help Ireland out of this recession. We also are confident that we can deal with those in the banking sector who have brought it into disrepute. We will deal with them and will continue to ensure we have better regulation of the banking system because that is what people expect of us. Moreover, they expect all Members to work together in this House to come up with such innovative proposals.

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