Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I am sharing with Deputies Hogan and Connaughton. We will have seven minutes, six minutes and five minute respectively. I ask the Acting Chairman to tell me when my time is up.

I listened to Deputy Edward O'Keeffe and I want to remind him that in 1996 and 1997, when Fine Gael and Labour were in Government, we handed over this economy to Fianna Fáil with the first surplus in many years——

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