Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will watch the clock. Just as governments are supposed to do, the responsible people in the room got up and did that today. When you look at this budget in the round in terms of what it has achieved, you will see that it has achieved the key principles of helping people with real financial assistance, putting money in people's pockets to give them certainty to plan for the next year and addressing in the round the very structures that make society function in regard to education, policing and housing. That is a real use of State benefit for the majority of people. It is a hugely commendable budget. What will make the big difference is that people know that as they go to bed tonight. I congratulate the Minister of State.