Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

She should also read the section of the Financial Times that deals with the cost of Government debt. If she had read that page every day since this Government started taking action on the banking crisis, she would have seen that the cost of the Government's debt has decreased further and further. If she reads those figures and quotes them, which she used to do when they were very high, she would realise that the Government's policies are having the desired effect of getting us back from the brink and putting us on track. These are the figures she used to quote. Obviously, she no longer gets to that page in the Financial Times. She only reads the headlines, but she should read the second section. It is called "The Markets".

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