Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)

I have outlined precisely what the Government has been doing. We see no recovery plan to stimulate employment or small and medium-sized enterprises, no credit flow opening up to SMEs in this country. The Government is walking us into another budget with no solutions to stimulate our economy and get us out of the crisis we are in. It is an abdication of leadership and responsibility and the Minister of State ought to be ashamed of himself.

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