Eugene Regan (Fine Gael)

Over the last 12 months, the Government has appealed to the Opposition to work with it on various issues, including NAMA and the Lisbon treaty, with which it has been confronted in the context of the recession we are facing. It has been suggested that the Opposition's reasoned debate and our criticisms of some of the Government's policies have created uncertainty in the financial markets and thereby affected this country's credit rating. I remind the Government that the serious infighting it is experiencing at the moment is not between the Government parties, as the Green Party is totally compliant with Government policy.