Alex White (Labour)

We can easily bring the question of growth and stimulating our economy into our debate. We can have the growth as predicted or slow things down so far that we may have to close the whole place down.

I am completely in favour of having the debate on the Croke Park agreement next week. We know the slowness of the progress on the Croke Park agreement. Various committees have been set up in the Departments. I have no objection to the debate but I am slightly sceptical about how much it will be possible to find out from the Government, given that so little progress has been reported to date. I am not against the debate but we should have a debate next week on the major banking crisis. We should have a debate on it today.