Michael Mulcahy (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)

Given the amount of legislation, the complex nature of the problems the State is grappling with and the depth of the recession, the Minister for Finance and the Government have done exceptionally well in this area. I sat through the Second and Committee Stage debates on the NAMA legislation, as Deputy Higgins can testify, and although some good and genuine points were made by the Opposition, there was a great deal of time wasting by the Opposition throughout that process as well.

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