Eugene Regan (Fine Gael)

The reality is the Standard & Poor's re-rating of the credit worthiness of this country is already reflected in the market. It is simply res ipsa locuitur, the facts speak for themselves. The slip of the tongue or otherwise where their representative suggested that this country needed a change of Government, change of face, change of Ministers, again simply reflects internationally the lack of domestic credibility of this Government. This emerges from the facts where the Government has been floundering since this whole issue arose——