Michael Kennedy (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the opportunity to speak on and support the Government's amendment to this motion. I also wish Deputy Noonan well in his new portfolio. However, I was a little disappointed with his Private Members' motion. It was the same recycled and repackaged stuff Fine Gael has been putting down for the past three years. I would have thought a new broom like Deputy Noonan would have come up with a more inventive and incisive motion. That is Fine Gael anyway; a little bit stale.

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