Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If Senator Craughwell wants to go to a court of law, he can put on his wig. I will attend as a witness and he can put me on the stand. I listened to the Senator and I want to answer his question. It is absolutely fanciful, as the Senator knows, to think that we could collapse FEMPI. Is the emergency on or off? That is a black-and-white question. We are emerging from the emergency. We need a path. Senator Hayden put it very well when she spoke about a path to full recovery. It would be fanciful in the extreme and ruinous for the country to think that the emergency is over and that we should find €2.2 billion to give back to public servants in the absence of further productivity. In fact, it would unwind-----