Ms Carmel Motherway:

We will not go there. However, they should be honoured in their absence. The founding generation of credit union volunteers - or pioneers, as we call them - had a very strong belief that members should never be allowed to become either savers or borrowers and that there should always be a link between the two. I must be honest and state that when I compare the Ireland of the present day with that which existed in the 1950s-----