Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday, the Taoiseach was asked about legislation on money leaving the country which is earned by migrant workers here. An extraordinary figure of billions of euro was given about one particular group. The Taoiseach will agree that it is important the Dáil record is accurate and corrected.

Today, UNITE, IBEC and others have put out the real figure for that group which is €17 million per annum. The Deputy who raised it knew full well because he got an answer on 22 October in the Dáil but he chose not to use that figure. Obviously, the truth was unimportant in comparison to his aim. He actually exaggerated the figure by over 31 times.

If the Deputy is very concerned about money leaving the country, he could look no further than Apple, Google, Facebook and many other multinationals which have large turnover here. However, I do not think Deputy Grealish cared about that. He had no problem with the €64 billion leaving the country to bail out foreign and native banks.

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