Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is well aware that we have a tight budgetary situation. Any human being seeing the disaster that befell the country in January would desperately look for some resource to give relief. It is a job-creating effort. It is a stimulus to build roads, rebuild harbours and promenades and undo the damage done by the unprecedented storms in January.

I do not think the Deputy would resist the expenditure of moneys that are available-----

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