Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank the Minister. I shall refer briefly to some of the discussion that has taken place in the past 40 minutes. In these committees, an element of groundhog day has started to develop where the leading spokesperson for the Opposition starts with some reasonable questions and it disintegrates into terminology such as waffle, drug addicts in denial and Nero fiddling.

We have seen this previously, before the promissory note deal and before the maturities were extended by seven years. I believe that when the Minister leaves his current job, he has a good future ahead of him in fiddling, because the results to date have been very positive for Ireland. In fairness to some Opposition Deputies, they have been consistent in the hope that the Government and the Minister would fail, but that has not been the case. It is disappointing that they introduced the sort of language they did. I compliment the Minister on his restraint and on how he handles the Opposition's comments, particularly those of Deputy Boyd Barrett, who has never had anything positive or constructive to say since I became a Member of the House.

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