Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has said that the upcoming General Election is the most crucial in decades, as people face the choice of how to sustain prosperity.
Mr McDowell said there was a danger of a majority in the Dáil being made up of Fine Gael, Labour, the Greens, Sinn Féin and left-wing Independents.
He said such a 'slump coalition' would endanger economic progress not just in the long-term, but in the short and medium term too, with a possible flight of capital if such a Government were formed.
The Progressive Democrats leader made the comments at the announcement of the PD candidates for Dublin South Central.
Musician Frank McNamara, best known as former music director of The Late Late Show, is to run for the party in the constituency.
He will run alongside Ben Doyle, a PD candidate in the last local elections.
Speaking to journalists, Mr McDowell said the choice facing voters was between a 'slump coalition' and, on the other hand, an approach to Government that had worked well for the past decade.
And he denied accusations of 'auction politics', saying the Government parties were not buying votes with the people's own money, but explaining how the accumulated wealth of the country would be spent - if the correct economic policies were maintained.
