Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)

I do not know how I will manage to answer them all in three minutes. The question in regard to the European semester is very much part of Government policy. We have supported it throughout the very complex negotiations at European Council level and as it passed through the European Parliament. I contend that if we had a mechanism, such as the European semester, in place during the past 14 years the profligacy and irresponsible expenditure of taxpayers' money that occurred here would not have happened-----

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