Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

——does not happen again. Aside from the allocation of additional resources, it is clearly a question of redirecting resources to ensure we get the quality outcomes that all citizens are entitled to expect. If we can construct our debates so that this is the focus of our concern, bearing in mind that we are here to represent ordinary people, not interest groups or people who put forward their own particular version of events to maintain the status quo and are opposed to everything——

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