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National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019): Jonathan O'Brien: ...The quicker we move to Committee Stage and deal with the details of the Bill, the better. I hope that the Government will listen to the reasonable voices within this Chamber and not to Fianna Fáil. I ask it to be open to listening to an alternative argument. We are where we are today because previous Governments refused to listen to the Opposition when it put forward reasonable and...

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