Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

On promised legislation and in particular the forthcoming budget and promised finance and social welfare Bills that will follow, does the Tánaiste agree that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, had an unusual hang-dog expression on his face on the televised portion of the press conference of the Secretary General of the OECD, who launched its report on Ireland yesterday? Does she acknowledge that the report, which the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, praised as "an excellent analysis of our disastrous economic plight" is nothing other than a devastating indictment of the total incompetence of this and previous Fianna Fáil-led Governments?

Does the Tánaiste accept the report which the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, describes as "a good, realistic, sober document" depicts the abject failure of the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance and of this Government to take the necessary remedial action in each of the budgets since May 2007 to tackle the economic plight of this country? Will the Tánaiste acknowledge-----

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