Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I asked the Taoiseach why the economic council has not laid in front of the Irish people what would be the impact in 2015 and beyond of the implementation of these new facets, namely, the €5 billion to €6 billion in cuts or tax increases or a combination the structural deficit will involve and the €4 billion to €5 billion of the automatic debt reduction.

Does the Taoiseach not accept it is utterly fraudulent for him and the Labour Party, with all their posters promising us stability in the same way they promised us jobs in the second Lisbon treaty campaign-----

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