Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

As a member of the Government which created 250 new agencies, to spot the speck in Fine Gael's eye in terms of setting up a holding company to invest €11 billion in State infrastructure that we will need to get out of this recession is biblical in the extreme. Can the Minister give us a deadline against which we will have a decision? An appalling human catastrophe is taking place and we are seeing the meltdown of skills of talented people. We need an injection of urgency both in the way this is done and the speed with which it is done. Three months on from the budget, I do not sense urgency anywhere in the system to make this happen.

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