Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----is, in my view, farcical. I ask the Minister at least to consider I might have a point in this respect. I have followed this matter for years and will admit to having tried to persuade a Minister of Finance in the last year of the last Government to change this situation as part of a Bill we were introducing but unfortunately it did not get through in my time. For a number of years I have believed this was an understandable provision when the Bill was introduced-----

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