Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

If he will not listen to me, he might listen to himself. Referring to co-operation in the Oireachtas, he is quoted in the Sunday Times of 28 March 2004 as saying:

I think we can expand that over the next 18 months into a comprehensive programme — that is what I'd like to do. You are going to have to deal with areas of health and education and crime; you are going to have to deal with the overall response that you get from the economy — how you use the fruits of that ... Essentially it is a question of laying out a credible alternative, of saying "before you go to vote the next time you are going to have a clear choice", and we are going to give them that.

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