Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I wish to emphasise the failure of the Government to deliver on its projects, failure to deliver on time, failure to deliver within price and failure to deliver to the people to whom it made wild promises.

The Government should be given time to apologise to the people. Just as in American football, there should be time out allowed for the Government to issue a profound apology to the people for the manner in which it has treated them, misled them, misguided them and taken their money out of their pockets. This is money the Government has lost and they cannot even count it as they have so much of it.

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