Michael McDowell (Independent)
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I have heard a great deal this morning. I was reminded that when the Shannon scheme was being built, one of the then Fianna Fáil Deputies, a veteran republican, Martin Corry, is reputed to have said he was opposed to the scheme for two reasons. The first was that it might flood Limerick and the second was that he was not as sure as everyone else in the House that this electricity thing was going to catch on. I wonder if, in the fullness of time, people will laugh at us on the basis of some of the remarks that have been made here, particularly those relating to the unlikely prospect that anyone would ask me to drain a field. That will not happen.