Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It deals not just with putting investment into infrastructure but those infrastructure developments will be an attraction for further investment across the country, not just location specific. When I hear Ministers saying the Fine Gael Party does not have any constructive ideas to suggest, I put forward that proposal as one the Government has not even considered because it does not consider proposals that come from other parties. I have made the point that the Taoiseach is afraid to consider any form of tax breaks to make it easier for small business to survive the recession and to get people back to work. The Tánaiste should know that intimately because businesses are talking to her on a regular basis. They are strangled because the stimulus does not exist.

We have suggested reducing the top and lower VAT levels. We have suggested the abolition of PRSI for new employees. We have suggested subsidised employment in cases where employers take on young employees to get confidence back into the economy and to encourage people to start spending money. We have made those suggestions but they have all been rejected.

The Taoiseach's Government wants to continue the centralised command and control two tier system in the health area. Deputy James Reilly has put forward what is a revolutionary and radical proposal to overhaul our health system. It is not hypothetical. It is not fantasy. It works in other countries.

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