Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

This country has a Government that has displayed the capacity to take whatever decisions are necessary to restore international credibility to our public finances, which is clearly not present in the Opposition. This is a Government determined to pursue a policy that will bring recovery, that will see growth returning to the economy and can only do so on the basis of the strategy outlined and the policies we are pursuing. All the bluster, bluff, rhetoric and words coming from the Opposition will not change that fundamental fact.

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