Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assure Deputy Boyd Barrett that the Government is rock solid and has a very big programme for Government which will take five years to implement. It will run its full term in the interests of the country and in running the country we will not renege on our sovereign commitments, which were entered into by the previous Administration. We want to re-engineer and restructure the promissory notes and put the process much further out at a much lower interest rate.

The Government is not in jeopardy. My hearing might be fading slightly and I cannot go as far as Chile but the Tánaiste, as leader of the Labour Party, and I, as leader of Fine Gael, are absolutely committed to running a full term of this Administration and implementing our programme for Government in the interest of the county. If that disappoints the Deputy and he wants the people on the street every week, he can go on his road. We will go Ireland's way, which is-----

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