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

It does not work anymore. It cannot work like that. The economy Fianna Fáil inherited in 1997 was one that was functioning based on production, based on work, and based on initiative and reward, and the party blew it. We must get back there again.

It gives nobody any pleasure to take €2.5 billion but one does it in the fairest way.

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