Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy will recall that one of the foundation stones of the great republic to the west of us, namely, the United States, on which the men of 1916 were establishing their principles and on which the first Government built the Constitution, is based on the Boston Tea Party's no taxation without representation; no representation without taxation. It is a fundamental principle of sovereignty.