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Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: I am only getting going.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: If the best the Deputies opposite can come up with is a reference to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, like Deputy Blaney, I do not want to hear what they have to say.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: I am sure the scriptwriters have handed the Government Deputies their scripts and they will have to read them. Who wrote Deputy Curran's script? Which Department is responsible for it? Was it the official in the Chamber? Was it the programme manager? Was it John Dowling? Who wrote it? That is the new thing now.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: I want to finish by talking about the carbon tax — the green tax.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: It is a tax increase for rural Ireland. I think the carbon tax should be introduced in the cities only because that is where all the carbon is being used. Where I live, there are nothing but potholes on our bad roads. We have no infrastructure and no water and sewerage schemes.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: We should have proper roads and proper infrastructure before we start to introduce a carbon tax and an extra road tax.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: Instead of having proper train and bus services, we have——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: It is a bit like the football team in the Minister of State's county. Mayo has been waiting as long for the Government to look after it as Kildare has been waiting for an All-Ireland.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: The Deputy can bring his prepared script.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: I am not a turncoat like Deputy Blaney.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: He took the Queen's shilling.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: There are not too many in Donegal.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: Ten thousand jobs are gone. It has the highest unemployment in the country.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: The Deputy is talking about sterling even though he lives in Donegal.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: Is the Deputy mixed up? He thinks he is in the Six Counties.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: Not in Letterkenny.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: The HSE abolished them. Has the Deputy ever heard of it?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: I have no responsibility for the HSE. Did the Deputy ever hear of it?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: We will have to get the Deputy a scriptwriter.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (11 Dec 2007)

Michael Ring: We do not mind. The Acting Chairman should let the Deputy continue.