Dáil debates

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion

 

3:00 am

Photo of Brian CowenBrian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I do not wish to take up any other Member's time. I am simply outlining that the investments we continue to make are within the budgetary policy we are now pursuing. The country wants the Government to move on to deal with the crises and problems of today. The people do not believe we should spend the next three years dealing with the previous three years or ten years. There are committees in the Oireachtas and other processes, such as commissions of investigation, which can deal with these matters in a time-limited and cost-effective way. The Government has no difficulty dealing with those issues in whatever way is required.

In every one of the issues being dealt with by the Government and which the confidence motion addresses, we have taken the correct decision and made the right call. The reports confirm that to a far greater extent than the Opposition contends. Work remains to be done by Government in the coming months and years and for the remainder of our term of office. That work will enable us to go back to the electorate for confirmation that the Government did its duty as it saw it, in the midst of the biggest crisis we have seen, probably in the history of the State.

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