Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-29
============================================================

Alan Farrell (FG), Dublin Fingal

One of the biggest constraints we have in this country is the left's obsession with trying to label people who are not on the left with them. They throw in various comments to suggest that we do not know what we are doing. A real anti-European sentiment was expressed too in the time that I have been sitting in this Chamber. It was covert but fairly obvious. We need to challenge those remarks. If one looks at the Irish economy's output and the number of jobs, people and families it has supported over the last 30 years, it has grown by six or seven times. Our average incomes have increased. Our quality of living has increased.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-06-29/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:05+00:00
Sitting date: 2023-06-29