Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

We must await the outcome of the deliberations by the Commission on Taxation before introducing any further taxation measures in the next budget.

I have listened to Deputy Varadkar speaking for the past hour and a half in the course of which he referred several times to another budget. I am sorry to disappoint him in this regard but it is not the Government's intention to introduce a further budget. That is important to say in the context of the decisions we are making today. Deputy Varadkar stated that there should have been greater reductions in spending, while Deputy Morgan was of a contrary view. These are the disparate views we are likely to encounter from different sides of the House. The reality is that expenditure has been reduced considerably.

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