Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)

It is from the man who set up this State, the first Minister for Finance, Michael Collins, who stated:

What we must aim at is the building of a sound economic life in which great discrepancies cannot occur. We must not have destitution or poverty at one end, and at the other an excess of riches in the possession of a few individuals, beyond what they can spend with satisfaction and justification.

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