Fiona O'Malley (Independent)

We have concentrated our focus and made people realise that if we are to get out of this, we need to act fast. We did not do it in the 1980s and were all paying for it for a long time afterwards. I am glad the Government has taken the bull by the horns and decided we are getting out of this as quickly as possible. It is an awful place to be and terrible to think many of the benefits of the Celtic tiger will have to be spent on paying back loans. It is most unfortunate-----