Michael Kennedy (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

Some €2.5 billion extra has been provided in this year's budget. Deputy Naughten conveniently ignores this, but in time he may reflect on it. The sum of €2.5 billion is a significant amount of money considering Fine Gael wants to borrow an extra €4 billion to fund its interpretation of how the country should be run. We are providing €2.5 billion extra in social welfare while the Opposition proposes to borrow €4 billion.

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