Government continues scandalous handouts to dog and horse industries

FIVE hundred and fifty million euro. It’s a fierce amount of money. I think of it as Charlie McCreevy’s legacy, God bless him. It’s around €140 for every man, woman and child in the country.

More than the amount we’re planning to spend on the entire health capital budget this year. A lot more than the amount we’ll spend on all of the arts, tourism and sports programmes designed by Charlie’s colleagues in the Government.

Yes. It’s the kind of money that would solve all sorts of problems.