Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the forthcoming budget we will continue to take the approach that has allowed this country to invest in the kinds of services that clearly need to be developed at this time in our economy. We will have a budget that will be incremental, sustainable and fair because we want to be fair to those people who are working and to the vulnerable, and we want to make sure that we support the kind of job creation we have seen in this country. We all know that the best way out of poverty is to have a job. With the level of job creation we have had, we now have the income to invest in the kinds of services that the country now needs.

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