Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

Bluster such as that is no substitute for reasoned argument. Let the Senator bluster away, I have no problem with that.

Since the publication of the Estimates, the public has been overwhelmed with analyses of the rights and wrongs of the Minister's approach to the management of the economy and commentators are parading panaceas for our short-term fiscal difficulties. Media commentators with certain agendas are hell bent on depicting the Minister as all the things he is not. They are in an unseemly rush to surpass each other in being derogatory about the Minister. Their analysis of the current economic situation, however, and how we should deal with it defies all logic.