Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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An impression is being given the bumper corporation tax receipts result in increased expenditure, where the reality is even if we did not have the bumper corporation tax receipts we saw several years ago, and they are increasing bit by bit, the same level of expenditure would have taken place. It would have been just probably more debt borrowing to fund this type of expenditure, because the reality is the Government would have kept within the expenditure benchmark.