Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I am mentioning it so loudly because the Chamber is almost empty. Many Labour Party Members who come here later today to vote on this measure will not know that they are passing legislation to give a specific exemption for Michael Fingleton, Sean FitzPatrick and others. I hope I have made my point. The Minister should take an hour this afternoon to draft an amendment to capture those people. It will be a bad day's work if the new Government exempts them, following the massive political changes and the Government's overwhelming electoral victory. It will mean there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but that is not how the Minister should be remembered for his first finance Bill.

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