Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The time devoted today for statements on the national development plan and the time devoted yesterday to the Moriarty report means two fundamental issues of importance to this country and our democracy were not properly debated. As Deputy Gormley stated, the €184 billion to be spent under the national development plan will be fundamental to every region in Ireland. We are all aware from the Moriarty report of what went wrong when one man put his hand in the till.

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