Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That is what his Government landed us in. Because the Government has made a series of decisions here, whether about banks, recapitalisation or the analysis currently being carried out by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in terms of the comprehensive spending review, we have brought about a situation where the European Parliament, the European Commission, the IMF, quite a number of European leaders and individual Commissioners have said that Ireland in its circumstances has met every one of the targets that have been set and has been ahead in a number of these. This was evidenced by the response of the troika last week to the situation that now obtains, for which the Deputy gallantly went on the plinth and took full credit last weekend. The Deputy is not shy about reminding us of who landed us in this mess in the first place.

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