Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

These are painful words for us all to contemplate because we all have mortgages and other financial commitments in line with income levels that are representative of a different time. Regrettably, times have changed and unless we want to go down with the IMF trying to pull us back up, it is time we faced up it quickly in this House and came up with solutions. Why did Fine Gael not specify the areas in which the €6 billion in cuts Deputy Varadkar wishes to make would take place? Had it done so, we on this side of the House could then have said which parts were good.