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Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——than pander to these base values of tabloid ethics and political correctness. Fine Gael and Labour are well matched.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Labour and Fine Gael are well matched, they both combine these awful values that mean nothing to our people because our people are interested in prosperity.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: They are not interested in nonsense about whether a Minister should be forced to speak and the old combined fascist communist tactic of forcing somebody who does not want to speak in this House.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: It is the right of every Member of this House to refuse to speak if he or she does not wish to speak in the House.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Of course, old habits die hard in Fine Gael and Labour. The old jackboot is matched with the hammer and sickle of the Workers Party——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——which has now intellectually and in every moral sense captured the Labour Party.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: There is not a single Labour Party person left.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: All I can say is they can have their Mullingar accord. They are well matched.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: We will continue to deliver budgets of this kind——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——that deliver for our people. The child care package we announced here and the social spending measures the Minister for Social and Family Affairs announced are record packages for their time and circumstance.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: We are building the social foundations of independence of the State and building a new social order in this country.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: A social order is built on the back of a successful transformation of the tax code and the working possibilities of the Irish people. That is what happened during the past seven or eight years. Fianna Fáil and, I am glad to say, our partners in Government, the Progressive Democrats, have transformed the tax code.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: People say this was a boring budget, however, it is anything but boring.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: We are now moving to consolidate on the success we achieved during the past seven or eight years. We are building the social infrastructure our people need to move up the value chain——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——and produce more and more quality jobs. Fine Gael and Labour were never able to achieve this in government, no matter what patchwork coalition they put together. They never did this. Every time a coalition Government in this country——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——is led by this Labour and Fine Gael amalgam——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——the construction industry goes through the floor.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The construction industry amounts to 20% of our vibrant and growing economy. Everybody working in that sector knows that as soon as Fine Gael and Labour come in they close down, move abroad and give up because they know they cannot achieve and build a future for our country.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: One cannot build an infrastructure with a patchwork coalition of different intellectual and ideological dispositions——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——such as that displayed by the newly captivated Labour Party——