Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is important that the Tánaiste would acknowledge in the House, on behalf of the Government, that the two main Opposition parties have accepted the target which the Government agreed with the European Commission in respect of the deficit reduction. There was some reference to this elsewhere yesterday. We all understand the importance that attaches to this. It is a fact that both the Labour Party and Fine Gael at the time voluntarily accepted those targets-----

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