Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, I am not but it really does. Let us be fair. The National Pension Reserve Fund, which was the rainy day fund, is nearly gone because of the collapse in our banking system. The Government is committed to getting, and has got, money back from the banks. We are creating a new fund to maintain progress in terms of the living standards and the needs of our people. If Senator Conway-Walsh wants to go back to the days of boom and bloom, she must look at what happened. It became not boom and bloom, but bust. That is the reality.