Seanad debates

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Fiscal Responsibility (Statement) Bill 2011: Second Stage

 

4:00 am

Photo of Mark DalyMark Daly (Fianna Fail)

I thank the Senator for pointing that out to me. We are now being promised the same on this Bill. It is not Senator Sean D. Barrett who will be writing our fiscal responsibility legislation. There is no doubt that it will be written by civil servants in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. I look forward to its introduction. It was said to me today that if some of it were to be written in German, some of my colleagues opposite might think it was in Irish. I am sure that when it is brought forward, our colleagues opposite will wholeheartedly support it and that the sections of this Bill supported by colleagues opposite will not be included, in respect of which they will receive briefings from the Fine Gael and Labour Party offices on the reasons they were not included. No doubt, the Bill will be considered to be fundamentally flawed.

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