Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State to the House and wish Senator Michael D'Arcy well with the banking inquiry. I hope he enjoys the next nine or ten months.

One of the positives of this Finance Bill arising out of the last budget is the increase in excise duty on cigarettes, which I have given up. I am now off them four weeks because I would not pay €10 a pack for them.