Liam Twomey (Fine Gael)

I had not received the news item from the RTE website before I made my contribution that David Begg has said there is no prospect of reinstating social partnership talks, a regrettable prospect. I wonder if it was the same obtuse behaviour by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance that collapsed the talks that I saw tonight from Senator O'Malley who is completely deluded in refusing to accept that Government policy is in any way to blame for the position the country is in.