Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I congratulate my colleague Deputy O'Dowd for tabling this motion. I am maddened that those Members who will vote with the Government amendment tonight are the ones who gave out about the former Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy, for abolishing the first-time buyer's grant. Those Members now have an opportunity to re-introduce the first-time buyer's grant. The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, should not nod his head. I have plenty more to say on this and he will be fed up with nodding his head when I am finished.

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