Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I hope all of those Deputies who are responsible for driving this economy and our country up on to the rocks will support that initiative when it is published and when it is announced in the House, as distinct from the carry-on in which they used engage in spending taxpayers' money with considerable amounts of spin and all the rest of it. From that perspective, this is a case of the Government taking a lead in deliberately providing incentives to stimulate the economy where jobs can be created, where opportunities can happen and where people can have some sense of confidence that what we are about is giving them that hope of which we have spoken.

In the context of the IMF-EU deal which constrains our country, the hand of cards with which we have been left is not as good as we would wish and I must play them in the best order in which we decide in the interests of the people and of the country, and that is what we will do.

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