Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If we were as good as we thought we were we would not be here; we would probably be after winning the lotto. We try to look into the future sometimes. The witnesses are fearing with all that is going on, with a recession probably coming, prices sky-high, we have had Covid for the past two years, social anxiety, you name it, that it will be next year or the year after before the stuff is decided.