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Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They do not want to hear.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It suits some people for the country not to make progress but the Government is determined to make progress.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: In the first renegotiation, we provided €500 million for a jobs initiative that is bearing fruit in the tourism sector.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We allowed an additional year, from 2014 to 2015, to reach our fiscal target of 3% debt to GDP ratio. We have begun the negotiations to ensure that any resources that might be leveraged from the sale of State assets can be used for productive purposes, which was implacably opposed by the troika in the beginning and signed off by the previous Administration that it could only be used to...

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is the economic policy of Deputy Ó Caoláin's party to bankrupt the country, to renege on the sovereign deal done-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: -----and to imagine that of the €18 billion deficit this year made up of €15 billion on current expenditure and €3 billion related to bank recovery, the €15 billion that we need to pay gardaí, teachers, nurses and doctors throughout the country can be generated by magic out of some place. The people are not fools, however, and they understand the fantasy of that.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Regarding the ESB, we did make a reluctant decision in terms of privatisation because that was the commitment in the memorandum of understanding, which goes well beyond the quantum agreed in the programme for Government.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are seeking to have the agreement of the troika to use that for productive purposes so that it will be yet another vehicle available to us to bring the country from ruin where we found it to prosperity where we intend to leave it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: That is rhetoric.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I continue to be impressed, as always, by Deputy Ó Caoláin's rhetoric, but it is completely empty.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: One should not treat either this House or the people as fools.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They know, fundamentally.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They do not want to hear.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The problem is that we have to pay an extraordinary debt, sovereign debt brought to this nation by the previous Government and voted in this House solemnly and supported by Deputy Ó Caoláin's party.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Sinn Féin voted on the night to guarantee the banks.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Ó Caoláin does not want to hear the truth. He cannot bear the truth.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Ó Caoláin cannot bear the truth but the truth is inescapable. He voted for that debt. He placed that burden on our backs.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The current finance spokesperson in Deputy Ó Caoláin's voted for it in the other House and stated, in doing so, he was donning the green jersey. We are faced with the reality. We are determined to hold strategic State assets in majority State ownership. We want to deleverage money that we cannot manufacture from thin air to create new jobs and bring hope to people.

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are not caught in blind ideology but we are determined, as I say, to bring economic prosperity-----

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)

Brendan Howlin: -----so that when we leave office we will be on an upward trajectory, not a doom trajectory.