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Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Brian Cowen: I might get a chance to duck Deputy Broughan's head in the water. He might catch an apple for himself.

Public Capital Investment. (1 Jun 2005)

Brian Cowen: ..., the outturn costs on the projects involved would be different. Those in households know that in terms of capital works they undertook, there were cost differences. It is not fair to compare apples with oranges. I accept, as was pointed out in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and that of the Committee of Public Accounts, that because we never undertook such a huge capital...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Brian Cowen: I will do the best I can but I am a Member only 21 years. We have a zero rate on food and a reduced rate applies to many services. It is like everything, one cannot compare apples with oranges all the time, although sometimes we all do so to exaggerate the point. The Deputy will find nobody in Monaghan on that wage who has to pay that rate to the local authority. Even an authority with seven...