Dáil debates

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed)

 

3:00 am

Photo of Dermot AhernDermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

It wants all of us in this House to pull together. That is why we have to make tough decisions.

We are advancing concrete plans to restore the public finances and the credit system, as people in the House accept we have to do as a prerequisite for our national recovery. We also have to try, as much as possible, to keep people in jobs and assist those who are unemployed. We will continue to do that.

In opposing our efforts, the parties opposite advance shallow and untenable strategies. I heard Deputy Varadkar say on a programme recently that the Government was doing it all wrong and taxing people, and that Fine Gael would make cuts. Would it please tell the people what it would cut?

The reality is it takes €60 billion to run the country. We have taxes of €40 billion coming in, of which-----

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