Beverley Flynn (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

It was one of the only positive suggestions made. We should refund VAT to people purchasing property. I would also consider incentives for the motor trade, including providing for a scrappage scheme, as well as the retail sector which has suffered a savage decline and for which I would perhaps consider changes to PRSI to help protect jobs. The sector has seen a decline three times the level in any other country in the euro area and is a very important one. Personal savings have increased due to the issue of confidence.

The Opposition will just not admit that this is a global crisis that requires from all of us political responsibility to deal with it in the national interest.

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