Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I did not want to prevent the new Deputy from speaking. However, as it would not have been his maiden speech, he was in danger of being heckled. I would not do it and he is very welcome to the House.

To start, I would like to tell Deputy McConalogue about detail and budgets. I sat on the benches opposite for a long number of years. While Fianna Fáil sat on this side of the House with the Progressive Democrats and the Green Party, which we sometimes forget, we watched during every Budget Statement as those in the Press Gallery had copies of the budget and we did not. That is how Fianna Fáil did its business when it came to budgets.

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