Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I thought Deputy Boyd Barrett's view would be that we should not have a defence force at all and I am taken by his concerns for the Defence Forces.

In the context of Deputy Boyd Barrett's comment about costs, the cost of providing services, be they through the Defences Forces or through any other arm of Government, do not seem to be a concern to him. He seems to be flaithiúlach with the taxpayers' money and, obviously, operates from an ideological perspective where he believes, as I used to do as a child, that money grows on trees. Sadly, that is not the case.

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