Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

If we can manage the public finances and the banks properly, we will be strong, successful and prosperous once more. Our incomes will rise to meet the cost of social welfare payments. One of the crucial investments we have made in that regard involves the protection of strategic research and innovation projects, which will allow us to move up the knowledge society ladder. The protection of such forms of expenditure should give our people real hope. I will return to this point later.

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