Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

If we want a serious discussion about what the country faces, if everyone is signed up to the 3% deficit target by 2014, the various growth scenarios outlined in the briefing the Opposition party obtained where confidentiality and market sensitivity is being respected, the Deputy will know what the rate of change is and what the rate of consolidation must be. That is available and we can have a discussion on that basis.

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