Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)

Ireland has benefited greatly from the expansion of the European Union to 27 states and immigration from the likes of Poland has helped sustain economic growth here and the Celtic tiger economy. There are now more small states in the EU and it is better that Ireland, a small country, is not surrounded only by large, dominant countries.

I wish to share time with Deputy Jimmy Deenihan.

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