Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

All of Deputy Kelleher's finger-pointing and shouting cannot deny the fact that two years ago a new Government came in to pick up the pieces of the broken economy and is now well on the way, step by step, with the help of the people to fix the destruction Fianna Fáil left behind in its wake.

We do need to broaden the tax base because Fianna Fáil left us in a situation where we could not pay for day-to-day expenses and we are borrowing at the rate of over €1 billion a month.

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