Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

——and more than 3% next year, a significant improvement on the situation and pessimistic projections. Given the financial returns of the first couple of months of the year, it is wrong to propose a mini-budget before the summer recess. In recent years, the Government has been responsible in its activities via its annual Estimates and taxation and budgetary policy. As it should continue to be responsible, I do not subscribe to the idea of introducing new taxes and mini-budgets. We used to do so when Fine Gael was last in Government. Fortunately, we have moved away from that and I am happy to see——

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