Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

In the course of next week's debate, will the Government be in a position to state clearly for the House its overall adjustment figures for the coming years? Will the Government present to the Dáil for purposes of the debate its best assessment of the projected growth pattern for the coming years? Will the Government indicate at the start of the debate the level of fiscal adjustment to which it is working for the budget in December? In the past two days I have made the point that we need independent verification of the figures upon which parties are expected to prepare their plans. The Minister for Finance may not agree with me on this, but there is now clearly a technical difference between the ESRI projections and the Government's projections produced by the Department of Finance. Obviously the figure reached between the Commission and the Department of Finance is one thing, but it seems-----

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