Noel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is also the abolition of the tax on flights. This afternoon Ryanair confirmed that it hopes to create 1,000 jobs in the airports around the country. That must be welcomed.

Equally, there is a need to welcome the progressive measures that will help the small construction players. Those in every part of the country will derive benefit from the tax rebates on small renovation jobs of up to €30,000. These are positive progressive moves.

Maybe it is difficult for some Deputies opposite to understand, when they were used, I suppose, to inflating a pyramid scheme of construction over the past two decades.

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