Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I have made inquiries in regard to the oversight committee and I am awaiting a reply. I will ask that this would be expedited.

In regard to the question of providing certainty for the country, the Government is determined to bring forward a four-year plan and a budget that will be important for this country. If the Deputy believes, in the context of the scale of the challenges that face us at present, that a further election based on the divergence of policy that is emerging on the other side of the House would give us an outcome that would provide certainty, he is a better man than me.

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