Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I should be allowed to reply without interruption and not have to listen to some of Deputy McCormack's guff. He is the gurrier in chief when it comes to that sort of thing.

I will not have my integrity challenged here by Deputy Kenny or the guilt by association he is trying to impute. When I became Minister for Finance in 2004, I set up such a group. Those papers are in the public domain and they can be found on the website of the Department of Finance. They set out at that time how we were going to deal with a situation where we had to move from the dense tax structures relating to property developments. It is all laid out on the website how we might arrive at a soft landing position where growth of 4.5%-----

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