Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Deputy may take it that the work of Government and the fiscal responsibility Bill, which the Minister for Finance is preparing, look at the impact of what is involved here, as will every Minister, not just for this year, but for the time ahead. It is a science on which we cannot give a definitive answer. We cannot say what the economic situation will be in five or ten years time.

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