Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----he will not get hung up on individual choices once they are within the overall budgetary framework and meet the target. He left here in the middle of October after the September review and did not intend coming back until next year because he was satisfied. Once the Government assures him that it will stay within the figures he does not mind what changes it makes. However, the people mind about the changes it makes because they affect them.

The Taoiseach is right in saying that the people are not responsible for everything that happened here.

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