John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the Finance Bill, which gives legislative effect to many of the announcements made on budget day by the Minister for Finance. I listened to Opposition Members on the television monitor and in the Chamber. If one listened to them, one would wonder where they had been for the past decade. The average man in the street will say honestly that the Ireland of today has improved significantly from just ten years ago.

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