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Early Childhood Care and Education. (26 May 2009)

Olwyn Enright: ...to the importance of preschool. It introduced this measure suddenly in an attempt to blunt the impact and response to this massive cut to families. To use the Government's favourite phrase, "we are where we are". However, the problem is that no one knows where we actually are with this commitment as there are a number of key difficulties, none of which are addressed by the Government's...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Olwyn Enright: ...open to the Government. It made decisions yesterday, just as the colleagues of the Minister opposite, although not the Minister himself, have made the decisions over the past 12 years. Yes, we are where we are, as the Government loves to say, but it brought us here, and this budget will not point us to a way out. It has chosen the soft options and asked already hard-pressed families to...

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Olwyn Enright: ...House of being alarmist in making this point. However, I am unconvinced that she is delivering sufficient staff to deal with the crisis. Members of the Government have taken to using the phrase, "We are where we are." In other words, let us not examine how we have come to be in this situation. The reality is that if the Minister, Deputy Hanafin, does not begin to act far more quickly...