Fine Gael has been in power since 2011.

I am very fond of Senator Ardagh but she should look at what we have done in seven years. We have almost full employment and we have turned the country around. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, was here this week. When she was last here, we had the men of the IMF coming in with their suitcases on dark, grey nights.

We have people leaving the country.

The bailiffs were at the door, people were emigrating in their droves, the construction sector was gone, the banking model had collapsed and the country was on its knees.

All I hear from the Members opposite is "ochón agus ochón agus ochón."

There are 10,000 people homeless in 2018.

The Senators have a brass neck coming in here and lamenting the fact that we have the greatest number of people at work in the history of the State. We are near full employment. Under Fianna Fáil's watch, we had 15.8% unemployment.

Governments do not create jobs; businesses do.

The Fianna Fáil Government wrecked the country and Senator Gallagher should be ashamed of it.

If the Leader thinks the recovery is down to the brilliance of Fine Gael, which oversaw the farce that was Irish Water, he has another thing coming.

I think the Senators are saying we have not reached utopia yet.