Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Respectfully, the Deputy can interject thereafter. We have a situation now where we set two funds up recently that will enable us to plan for the future. More than €15 billion will be invested in those funds to ensure that when we need that support, or when the economic tides change globally or indeed domestically, that we have those funds not only to dip into but also to invest and generate a return for future generations.

This is an ambitious budget for an ambitious country that knows we can and will continue to develop economic growth and that unlike before we have our economic models spread across a number industries such as life sciences, pharmaceuticals and med tech, the tech sector, and - crucially within my own brief in the Department of Finance - in international financial services, a sector that employs 57,600 people and will employ a further 9,000 in the coming years. I commend the budget to the House.

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