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

The demand was there all the time before and during the financial crash. Demand was never in question. This worries me. During that period, I put down parliamentary questions to ascertain the extent to which the economy was on a safe footing, etc. The responses I got, with the exception of one question, was, yes, of course it is. The responses were absolutely resolute. There was only one question that had the opposite answer and everybody decided to go batten down the hatches after that. To go back to something else-----