Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

The announcements about Cisco and Google do not suggest this country is becoming unattractive for investment. We continue to have full employment. I will readily concede we must be vigilant. I am very glad the energy regulator is re-examining the price rises he approved earlier in the summer. I note the Minister for Finance did not raise excise duties in either of the last two budgets. However, attention must be paid and is being paid to what agencies at arm's length from the Government are doing. A simple example of this is the CIE price increases which were screwed down from 9% to 4%.