Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

I thank those Members who contributed to this debate. Committee Stage will allow us to examine all the Bill's details over several days.

It is somewhat depressing during a debate on a finance Bill to have Opposition spokespersons, one after another, not contribute a single new idea to resolving the country's economic problems. The Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin Opposition is negative. We know what they are against but we still do not know what they are for. Not one single constructive idea came from the Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin Opposition.

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