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I don’t understand the proposed National Asset Management Agency. I have listened carefully to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan and his chief adviser, Peter Bacon. I have read all the news reports. I have gone online to read background information on the theory and practice of bad banks and toxic debts.

Last evening's Budget will drive talented people away from this country by making them seriously consider emigration, a Galway senator claimed last night.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan gave the Irish motor industry a shot in the arm last week, when he introduced a scrappage scheme on cars 10 years or older.

The decision to defer the decentralisation of the Office of Public Works (OPW) to Claremorris has been described as a ‘hammer blow’ to the county by Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring.