Shane Ross (Independent)

I will. If members of the Opposition wish to produce the funds and tell us from where they are coming, that is fine but to talk about funding this, that and the other in isolation is apple pie and ice cream because they made a dog's dinner of funding initiatives when they were in power. Let us be honest about it. They were put out of power because they were not so good at managing Ireland's finances as the Government. I say this as someone who was a member of the Fine Gael Party at the time. They let public spending get out of hand. The motion is a nonsense. The Opposition would have been better to say, for once, that this initiative is something of which it approves because it has saved lives.