The growth strategy is fundamental. Any suggestion that there is an absence of stimulus in regard to this growth strategy does not make any sense for the following reason. We have not only a deficit crisis but a debt crisis. We are not in the markets borrowing money. Currently, we are in the process of providing for a facility to provide stability for this country over the next three years and beyond and we must ensure we put in place and underpin the prospects of fixing and repairing the banking system not for the banking system itself, but because we cannot have a modern economic system without it. We must ensure those who create wealth and jobs, those with an entrepreneurial spirit and those creating enterprises which are providing jobs for our people, are supported in every way.

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