Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The truth is that we can create an economy, like the jobs we have created in the past two years, with 90,000 extra in full-time employment and high wages. They are enjoying strong living standards because we are creating a strong economy. Sinn Féin's vision does not include enterprise as part of the growth of a strong economy. It has a narrow, old-fashioned view of the world.

It is about time that Deputy Ó Snodaigh came out of this self-delusion and portrayal of an economy as a failure when any objective person looking at the progress of this Government will see we have pulled back from the precarious brink that we inherited regarding the public finances, banking and, most importantly, unemployment towards the chance for people to build a decent living standard for their families.

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