Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

My critique of the Opposition was always that its proposal would disrupt the market. Without going through the entire matter in detail, I will state the problem with the Opposition approach. On the basis it knew the economy was going well and was being well managed, it was an ill-thought out initiative and its origins were in an attempt to win votes on the economy. The Opposition sought to apply a scatter-gun approach to the question of the housing market.