Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

Our structural deficit can be reorganised. We may have differences of opinion in regard to how this can be done but it can be reorganised. We can get the deficit within the margins of 3%. There is only a year in terms of difference between the Sinn Féin approach and that of Government and other parties. I appreciate that I will not get to speak on the amendments I have tabled. However, I hope to have the opportunity to call a vote on them, thus exposing all the parties in this House in terms of whether they support the burning of senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank and the reduction of €1 in the minimum wage which will be pumped into those gamblers, the multimillionaires who are scattered across the world whom we have bailed out once more.

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