Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I hope I am not breaking a protocol in saying I also took the opportunity, at yesterday's meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, to give two barrels of an information shotgun to our visitors. They needed it because they did not understand the issue. That is a fact of life. I am appalled at the lack of understanding by members of the German delegation.

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