Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

They will lose their nerve and they will not be able to vote it through. That is what this is all about and make no mistake about it. We will not support it on the Order Paper and we will vehemently oppose its forced passage through the House. There is a real alternative and that alternative was spelled out to the Government several weeks ago in a carefully thought-through document properly costed by the Department of Finance and in consultation with the Commission on Taxation. It was a real set of proposals contained in the document The Road To Recovery prepared by Sinn Féin. The Government should have taken note of it.

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