Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have absolute confidence that when the members of the public are asked whom they trust to secure and deepen the recovery and spread it to every household, they will place their faith in this Government to continue doing exactly that. It is because while we are providing an additional €3 billion in resources for the economy, we are also ensuring at the same time that we proceed with the ongoing repair of our public finances and comfortably exceed our deficit reduction targets. One could ask why. It is because this Government will not do anything to imperil the recovery. There will be no return to the Fianna Fáil-style recklessness of the past and nor we will succumb to the type of future recklessness so casually advocated by Sinn Féin.

It is just one year since Ireland’s exit from the bailout. By and large, we have stopped talking about the bailout because as a country all of us wish it never happened and as a people we are still living with its after-effects.

However, it happened and it was caused largely by Fianna Fáil's ruinous bank guarantee which left the country in financial rubble.

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