Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. However, it was populism in its worst form but it was fully supported by the people.

We need to get back to basics and to recognise the fundamentals of the democratic system. We need to improve and respond to the issues that present to us and we need to make it work. There is no sense in opting out of the system and pretending that somebody else is the causing the problem for us. Sonny Liston, a famous boxer, once said something during a fight between him and Cassius Clay, which was a miniature international bout that was and is world famous, in which he was clobbered a number of times. When he was told by his trainer on going back to his corner, "Keep on in there, he's not laying a glove on you", his response was, "Would you keep an eye on the referee: there's somebody hitting me".