Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----to make social welfare payments, to pay for all of the services which the Deputy rightly demands every day in this House? This Government will restore and is restoring the country's economic sovereignty. The steps we are taking will get us out of the economic difficulty we are in. Some of the decisions we have to make and are making are difficult. We are making them, we will make them and we will do what is necessary to restore this country's fortunes.

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