Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have already said to Deputy McGrath that it improves the budgetary situation by €1 billion between now and 2015. Obviously, if it improves the situation by €1 billion between now and 2015 then unless something disastrous happens the public will see the benefit of that improvement over the course of the budgets.

Deputy McGrath is going down the road which got his party into trouble previously. As soon as they see a little money they want to go out and promise the people suddenly that they will spend it, that they will be back, that they will have a lash and that the nice people of Fianna Fáil will spend money and get people back to work.

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