Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

-----even though there is no actual payment reflecting that. This will rise to approximately €1.5 billion next year, but again no actual payment will reflect that, before declining in future years. It is from there I suspect the Taoiseach developed the analogy of the mortgage although I do not think such an analogy is necessarily useful in this context.

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