Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It never ceases to amaze me that every time the Taoiseach is presented with a few constructive suggestions from this side of the House that he responds with an Ard-Fheis style speech. People are angry. The Taoiseach is correct, anger is not a policy but it is very understandable given what he and his Government have done to this economy. What we need to focus on now is how the problem is going to be resolved. The situation we are in at the moment is that one can take the route of deciding, as the Taoiseach repeatedly comes in here to tell us-----

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