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- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----conferring a financial advantage on a political supporter.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The site in question was selected by Ms Mary Harney when she was the Minister for Health and Children.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Which question would the Deputy like me to answer?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am guided by the Chair. I have no doubt that the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, will deal with all the questions around the issue of primary care centres when he deals with the private notice question. He has already done that on a number of occasions.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The fact that Deputies opposite may not be satisfied with the quality or quantity of the reply is for them to pursue. I have been asked whether I am satisfied that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, will deal comprehensively with the issues this afternoon, and my answer is "Yes".
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: If I were Deputy Adams, I would hesitate to refer to baggage and other Deputies in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I would hesitate to refer to baggage.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The Labour Party and Fine Gael are attempting to rebuild the sovereign independence of this Republic following the disaster we inherited from the party opposite. That will not be done overnight. The last time we were in government we handed over a vibrant economy with a planned surplus.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Within 12 years, this was driven into the ground.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: We never got any economic help or support from Sinn Féin-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----and we will continue with our mandate to repair the extraordinary damage done to this country. We lost over 250,000 jobs between 2007 and 2009.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: We are moving slowly but surely, and with great difficulty, to undo the damage done in the past. I am quite sure that all the Labour Party elected Members in this House and elsewhere will ensure that we will meet targets when we have to account for our service at the end of our mandate.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy has spoken about the fear and worry which people have across this country and I understand what he is saying. We have a right to be fearful because of the state in which this country found itself over 18 months ago.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Let me answer. Deputy Boyd Barrett constantly railed against the adjustments, corrections and additional costs being imposed on this country by the troika because we lost our economic sovereignty. So far this year we have borrowed €11 billion, and we will probably have to borrow another €4.5 billion. Nobody else in the world will lend us money at rates we can afford and we are...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----and attempt to say that there is-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I do not need any help, Mattie.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: They attempt to say there is another way and the cuts can be avoided or we do not have to repay the €1 billion. The terms of the deal with the only group in town that will lend us the money is that we cannot burn the bondholders.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Boyd Barrett and I share some things in common. We come from the same spectrum of ideological politics of this country.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Boyd Barrett from his knowledge of history will recall that even Leon Trotsky agreed with Lenin when they went into government-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: -----that a new economic policy was necessary to overcome the crisis before they get on the path of righteousness.