Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

It does not have credibility. It is easy to criticise what is being done by the Government but it is another thing to propose an alternative policy with the capacity to work and be funded by the international markets. Fine Gael has not done that and continues to undermine its own policy by the suggestions it makes. Clearly, we need to have policies that will improve competitiveness. We are making progress in that regard and are working on it. However, it is not good enough for us to sit back and suggest that just because we have reduced the cost of doing business here, somehow the rest of the world has stood still because it has not. Competitiveness is improving in other states and we need to continue our work in that regard.

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