Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)

It is not about conning people into thinking we can bury our heads in the sand and wake up in the morning to find everything okay. We want to be able to keep hospitals and schools open, provide public services and pay gardaí. Nobody on the Opposition benches has come up with a single credible proposition as to how that can happen other than telling the EU, IMF and ECB that we do not want their money and will not borrow from them. If one day the paycheques of gardaí, nurses and teachers were to bounce, Sinn Féin would introduce a Trotskyite model of economics to Ireland in the hope that it might work. One good thing is that the people who are advocating that will realistically never have the reins of power in this jurisdiction.

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