Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2020-12-11
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

It can hardly be the case on Committee Stage of this legislation that the Minister of State can attack the rationale behind or the implications of my proposed recommendation and that I would not be given an opportunity to address it. I would have addressed this point in much shorter order, if I did not have to constantly apologise for still being on my feet.
The second substantial objection the Minister of State made to my recommendation concerned public servants. Of course, public servants can produce works of cultural merit. There was a former Minister of State who wrote quite a racy novel a number of years of years ago-----

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Sitting date: 2020-12-11