Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One cannot do it with interest rates at 15% when we were blocked out of the international markets and when we had neither word nor reputation. That has been changed.

I would like Deputy Bord Barrett some day to say how, if the banks all collapsed, he thinks that the economy would function. Perhaps that is what he wants, given his warped political philosophy. I do not accept from him that real jobs are not real jobs.

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