Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is exactly why I have been looking for the debate for the last three to four weeks. We now know from the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, that we have more than €1.5 billion extra in the State coffers that was not expected. I am not talking about a tax giveaway. I am talking about putting money back into the pockets of hard-pressed workers. Doing so will grow local economies up and down the country. That, I note to Senator Colm Burke, is when one gets more people back to work.