Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----people are going to work, people are in business and we have entrepreneurs in both the public and private sector who are trying to provide a good wage and standard of living for the workers in those sectors. We need to offer support rather than this constant negative rhetoric that emanates from the Opposition benches - particularly from the Leader of the Opposition - on every occasion. He fails to confront the basic issue, which is that the funding requirements of this State-----

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