Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I have already given the answer to Deputy Cuffe. I do not accept Deputy Ó Caoláin's argument about the level playing field. I believe that north of the Border the Deputy's party is engaged in falsification of its electoral expenditure. It is fanciful to suggest that in the last elections his party spent less than the Alliance Party in a massive campaign in Northern Ireland, as it has claimed.

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