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

Until such time as the Government is able to restore everything it wants to maintain what I refer to as the fig leaf of the emergency legislation. I do not believe there is a requirement for that. Moments ago, I listened to the Minister’s party leader speak immediately before the debate and she was extolling the billions the Government is spending on schools. The Government said it has built more schools than we even did in the best of times.

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