Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We have the fastest growing economy in Europe and we have the prospect of building on the recovery to provide more funding for education and health, and to address the difficult issues that undoubtedly face a number of different areas of our society. I am happy to say that because of the fact people are going back to work and the economy is recovering, we have been able to give people back some small return in terms of the USC they were charged as an emergency tax during the crisis, and we have been able to invest significant extra resources last year and this year in our health system. Not only that but we are reducing our debt and we are now becoming, as every day goes past, a stronger economy. I wonder whether people want to risk the recovery we have had, with Labour and Fine Gael-----

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