Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Again, we take responsibility and we are sorry for that. We apologise to right thinking people with common sense who know the score, who know we had extremely difficult choices to make and who know we will have more extremely difficult choices to make. It will be a measure of this Government and its supporters that we will get through this. Older people know that we have come through other recessions and have survived them. They know the score. One tightens one's belt and one gets on with it. To a large extent, people are prepared to accept that.

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