Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Some €1 billion is allegedly available to deal with the provision of water and all the other things that have to be done in this country. It has been suggested that it should be released to everybody to buy the next election at any cost, even if it ruins the country. That is what it means. This €1 billion has been spent approximately five times by the party opposite by now. If that continues, the whole spectrum of the economy be affected in a detrimental way. The education and health services are rightly screaming for money at present. Costs are increasing all the time.

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