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- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: If I have, perhaps I can be reminded of the issues in question.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Is that a question?
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In regard to the general point made by Senator Cullinane, which was also touched on by Senator Walsh, restoring public finances is the best aid to growth. That is what the OECD has told us-----
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Please-----
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is like a bad local authority.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Restoring the public finances is the best way to aid growth, as has been said by the OECD, the World Economic Forum and any other economic advices we have. We must restore economic fortunes. We are borrowing â¬18 billion this year. Some â¬15 billion is for day-to-day expenses and â¬3 billion is for the banks. We are paying our gardaÃ, teachers, nurses and ourselves from that borrowed...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Please allow me to speak.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Does Senator Walsh allow anyone to speak other than himself?
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: If we are to restore our economic fortunes, we need to cut our cloth according to our measure. That means we must reduce that â¬15 billion we are borrowing to a normal 3% of GDP. That is our target by 2015. That is what we are bound to do under the stability pact up to which we have signed and what this Government is going to do. To do that, we will have to cut expenditure. We have said...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will not come back to be shouted down.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will finish. I had hoped to have had constructive engagement in this Chamber because it really has-----
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: This Chamber has a job of work to do because a decision will be made on its future next year. It really must work and people should not be shouted down like in a poor local authority.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is a very nice place.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is entirely in the Acting Chairman's hands.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Perhaps I might deal with three speakers at a time.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I would genuinely like a different type of debate. I am open to all suggestions. However, shouting down other speakers and making political cases impresses nobody, either insider or outside the House. Nevertheless, I will answer the question put directly to me by Senator David Cullinane in respect of an issue that is entirely extraneous, namely, the decision as to whether the VEC site...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I am giving plain facts. I will try to bring about transparency in the manner in which we do business.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We can shout each other down or engage in real politics and justify the existence of this House, a decision on which will be put to the people.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: If the Senator continues to deny everyone speaking time, no one will be heard. I do not think in parochial terms. I supported the concentration of services from my county into Waterford because the development of a regional cancer centre in a regional hospital in Waterford was the best solution, although the population of Wexford is larger. I supported the development of a regional airport...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, I understood the Senator's question. In regard to the lottery proposal, I was looking for innovative ways of getting new money. I would like at this point to make a general point if I may. This is important in the context of Fianna Fáil's contribution to the House thus far. I understood Fianna Fáil embraced the objective of reaching a deficit of 8.6% of GDP next year.