Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Yesterday, the Taoiseach walked into the Chamber and plundered the public service income position to pay for the wanton waste of Fianna Fáil's management of the economy over the past ten years. In my view, it was to a disproportionate and unfair extent. His contribution yesterday said precious little about the situation for persons on the live register. We will be in the House when the live register figures are published, but, last night, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, who seems to have an agenda of his own which is different from the Taoiseach's, said the increase in the live register would be 33,000.

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