Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I welcome the fact that the motion has been so widely supported in the House. I believe the motion will attract not only the support of the great majority of Members of the House but also that of the great majority of the Irish people. Failing to live up to the logic of this motion is a self-inflicted handicap that the provisional movement has taken upon itself. When and if its members go away and consider all these matters and when they wake up to the truth, we will have made some progress.

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