The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, warned on Sunday that if this drift is allowed to continue, the Government will not last until 2016. He said we will not see 2016. This seems to have been supported by the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore. Apparently the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is regarded as the praetorian guard of the coalition. He stressed the need for urgent action and he warned that unless the Government gets a firm grip on the political agenda, he would be "fearful of our chances of seeing 2016 as a Government". This is a quote from a senior Minister of the Government: "[T]hings have been sliding for the past three months, things have been going off the rails." He said that the coalition parties needed to meet behind closed doors and settle on a programme of renewal: "There is no point in taking flight or panicking, but we need, in the light of criticisms, to settle on a new direction." The Minister is saying that there will be amendments to the programme for Government and a new programme for Government. Can the Taoiseach confirm that there will be a review of the programme for Government and that a new programme for Government will be negotiated shortly, as per the Minister's statement?

I assure the Deputy that he does not need to be worried about drift from the Government point of view. We are firmly focused on the spring of 2016. The twin pillars given to us in the mandate by the people in 2011 were to sort out our public finances and to get our country working.

The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said so.

That is at a point where we have had the lowest interest rates in the history of the State, at 2.79%-----

That is Mario Draghi, not the Taoiseach. Will the Taoiseach talk to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte?

-----the highest growth in employment in the OECD, the continuing fall in numbers on the live register over 23 months and a refocus of the priorities. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, was merely endorsing what we have already said that we need to continue to implement our medium-term strategy, with a view to having our deficit below 3% by 2015 and eliminated by 2018 and full employment restored by 2020. That is the focus of the Government-----

But he said the opposite.

If Deputy Martin has any concerns about drifting off course or straying into areas where we should not be, we are very focused on 2016, very focused on going to the end of our remit-----

He said the Government was going off the rails; he said the Government was drifting. He called for a programme of renewal.

You can relax, Micheál.

-----and very focused on letting the people answer the question whether we sorted out the public finances and whether we got the country back working again.

Is this the document that will see us through?

I thank Deputy Martin for his concern but I assure him it will be fine.

Any ideas, Micheál?

The Government would not take them.