Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

On the issue Deputy Kenny is talking about, we will come up with that in mid-November and then in December we will introduce the 2011 budget. In terms of the purpose of what we are bringing forward, it is needed to ensure a credible pathway is set out by this country as to how we reach the deficit reduction we agreed to last February.

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