Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

The Government is in this dilemma having fired its two magic bullets between the national development plan and the budget because it is utterly incompetent at developing and implementing a plan that it produced. That is why people are moving away from it. The Government lacks a sense of responsibility. The people who waste money are promoted in key Departments. That would not happen in the private sector. If any large plc failed to deliver on its seven or five year plan people would take responsibility for that. That is the key difference between this side of the House and the proposals in our published documents in this area as against the Government record over the past ten years.