Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am opposing section 1. In the past 60 minutes the Minister of State has got the gist of what I want to say. As he rightly said, there is no new Government policy decision being announced today, there is no change of approach by the Government and there is nothing new in the legislation. All it does is give statutory effect to every expenditure choice the Government has made during the course of the year in the Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. I have given the Minister of State several reasons I disagree with the choices the Government made during the year. I reject the choices it made owing to a lack of fairness.

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