Labour leader calls for parties to ‘stop quibbling’
Labour leader, Ruairi Quinn, says it is time for parties to stop quibbling about the way they calculate their economic policies and focus instead on public services.
Quinn said an independent assessment in yesterday’s Irish Times had found the Labour Party’s figures were prudent, and the debate should now move on.
He also said that Fianna Fail did not want to talk about the housing and health care crisis that the rest of the country is concerned with.
“What we have to establish is our Labour proposals, which are practical, prudent and realisable.
"I am quite happy our figures will stand up to scrutiny.
"Really the question is what are we going to do with the resources we have rather than what whether our figures are correct because, quite frankly, that debate is over.”
