Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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A couple of years. We repeatedly state we must reaffirm our objectives, our cohesiveness and our solidarity. We must determine where we are going and if we are happy to be going in that direction. We must also consider the alternatives. What we have is much better than any of the alternatives. It is of huge importance that we as individual member states are in a position to be able to illustrate to the people that we represent the benefits of all of the things that we have come to expect from the Single Market, namely, solidarity, unity of purpose, cohesion and the standing together of 500 million people. Hopefully, our British colleagues might even see fit to change their minds.