Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Will the Minister of State explain, given the targets of the EU-IMF programme, which require sucking huge amounts of money out of the economy up to 2015 with a further requirement to go beyond that to meet the targets in this treaty, how we will get growth and where that growth will come from? Will the Minister of State respond to the downgrading of growth projections for this economy and the European economy? Does she acknowledge at any level that this has something to do with austerity? How does continued austerity for at least a decade produce jobs and growth? It does not compute.

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