Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

Why did the Fine Gael spokesman say it brought the country to its knees? If one wished to describe systemic importance in plain man's language that was a very good example and the Deputy's finance spokesman did a good job of it. Unfortunately, we are in this situation and we must do this, but it is the least worst option. If we do what the Opposition suggested we would pay many tens of billions of euro more.

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