Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

He should place a vision before the people and enlist their support in getting Ireland back to work. He must help our employers and entrepreneurs be the people they want to be. We can then get taxes from them to pay for our public services.

We can imagine getting to a point where the €7 billion I outlined would be available for productive economic and social use and there would be a re-engineered business plan for Ireland, explained clearly and passionately by leaders of standing and trust. That will bring the people on board for a different ten years of pain; this is preferable to ten years of propping up banks and other vested interests while withdrawing education, health and social services wholesale, with our brightest and youngest leaving the country while a bureaucracy stays in place. The Government should eliminate the unnecessary bureaucracy because otherwise we will be doomed.

The Government should act constructively to eliminate the bureaucracy. The Minister of State should ask the Taoiseach to lay a plan before the people to bring us with the Government. I say this as a member of the Opposition committed to the country before my party.