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Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: We appreciate it.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: Deputy Kennedy is being positive. We must acknowledge that.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: Who said it was bad?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: How many are being lost?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: I want to clarify one point. The highly respected ESRI, in its commentary on the budget said that generally it was not good for the property market.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: I am somewhat amazed that for the first time since I came into this House, economic commentators are welcoming the borrowing of such a large amount of money, €5 billion. It is the highest ever in the history of this House and I am very concerned about that. What the Government has done in recent years is skilfully transfer State borrowing to personal indebtedness. The result is that on a...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: ——--there is such an acceptance of this huge borrowing. Whereas one time borrowing was a bad word, now it is suddenly becoming fashionable, and that is dangerous.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: The national debt, back in 1977, stood at around £4 billion. By 1981, under a Fianna Fáil Government, it had trebled to £12 billion, and as we are always reminded in this House, it doubled between 1983 and 1987.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Deputy is wrong.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: It was not. It was £23 billion to £24 billion. To say it was more is the type of inaccurate information on which the Deputy and others like him have been briefed by his party for several years, so that they go around giving people inaccuracies. I would use the other word, but I am not allowed to, in the Dáil.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: It is not. The Deputy should go away and check it out.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Deputy should do it, since he brought it up.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Deputy is telling untruths to the House. He should go away and clarify that. There is a spokesperson present from the Department of Finance who might be able to clarify the figure for the Deputy. It doubled to about £23 billion at that time.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: We did not, and since then, whatever gains have been made through various tax bonanzas, paybacks from DIRT and other schemes, from the sale of State assets and so on, have all been squandered. I have a statistic here, which Deputy Kennedy, who is so well-briefed by his party, will no doubt deny, that shows the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, has turned a €2.3 billion Exchequer surplus...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: Deputy Kennedy reflects how well he has been indoctrinated by his colleagues since he came into the House.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: I watched the debate on the monitor. When one sees every Minister on script attacking what Fine Gael states, it means we are succeeding. The latest opinion poll had Fianna Fáil at 32% and Fine Gael at 31%. Next time it will be reversed and we will be ahead. People on this side of the House are performing well and connecting with the people.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: Our party has good days ahead. Deputy Kennedy should clarify the matter of the national debt because he got it wrong.

Schools Building Projects. (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise the issue of Dromclough national school, County Kerry. I attended the school in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has always had a high level of academic achievement. Enrolment is approximately 203 and the school has 11 teachers, three special needs assistants and a secretary. An application was made in April 2002 for...

Schools Building Projects. (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: The school has made no progress.

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (6 Dec 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport if funding will be provided under the 2008 specific improvement grant scheme to provide a replacement bridge at Ballingar, Lixnaw, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25133/07]