Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----and 20% by cuts in expenditure. I am answering the Deputy's questions. I am coming to the next question on which the Deputy wants a response. There is no relevance whatever to me having a dinner with regard to what I do in the course of my duties. If the Deputy has any suggestion or evidence to the contrary, he should not abuse the privilege of this House. Let him go outside and say it and I will see him in court. It is as simple as that. I am sick and tired of listening to the kind of rhetoric coming from the Deputy's quarter about truthfulness, honesty, straight dealing and recognising what is right and wrong. I know what is right and what is wrong. I assure the Deputy that in the course of the discharge of my public duties, I have nothing whatever about which to worry. The Deputy can paint whatever pictures he likes. He has been pretty good at it for a long time.

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