Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is not going to happen through the mechanism of someone coming in and saying: "There you are, here is more money for you, here is another cheque". Yes, austerity is difficult to deal with and yes, fiscal discipline is difficult to deal with. However, in comparison with other European countries, which face far more difficult situations at present, our position is difficult but yet our growth patterns are heading in the right direction. We need to build on that and I wish to see people in the constituencies of Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett having the opportunity to reap the benefits of the challenge through which we all are coming, in order that jobs can be created in everyone's part of the country and to avoid raising a generation that does not have any hope and which believes that politics does not work for them.

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