Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

In the normal course of events, as we prepare for a budget in December, we provide for the pre-budget outlook, where much of the information is provided officially and that normally comes in November. On the plan we must now bring forward, once the Government has decided on the growth figure it will run with, which will provide for a credible path to a solution to the public finance problem by 2014, we will provide it to the Opposition.

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