Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

It is unbelievable that the Minister should make up his mind and then, drip by drip, feed stuff to the newspapers. When it does not seem to work, the notion is "change the policy". All of the evidence from Sweden, Finland and other countries, which got through similar messes, indicates that transparency and the sharing of information with parties, including those in opposition, was critical to solving their particular economic collapses such as the one in Ireland.

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