Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Of course the Deputy is. If I had the information available, I would give it to her. As I have not, I undertake to provide it if possible. She will understand from previous replies that there is no collation system within Revenue which could provide her with that figure immediately. It is another issue when she asks me a question to which she knows I do not have the answer.

In terms of the Cinderella rule, she is also aware from lengthy discussions on previous occasions that, by leaving before midnight, one is not deemed to have stayed in the country on that day. That is a well known fact which was agreed by Dick Spring in 1994, when Deputy Burton was a Minister of State.

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