Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Senator Walsh's intervention negates the very point I am making. We should try to be constructive. Even if the Senator had a point about what happened last year and the year before, I do not think people give a monkey's about it. They want people to be constructive and to get us out of this crisis. We are in a perilous economic spot. We can do our own evaluation of how we got here, but that is for another day. If people have constructive ideas for mapping our way out of this crisis, we will see if we can address them. I will be open to that. I can do the ground hurling as well as anybody else. If anybody wants to be partisan and play that game, I can do that as well.