Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The best way to clear a debt is by earning more money to pay it back. Everyone knows that we have to grow our way out of a recession. We cannot get out of it by selling off State assets in the absence of growth. That is where the process goes wrong. This policy is entirely the Government's because we never made a commitment to use the sale of State assets to write down debt.

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