John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Harney cannot change the direction or the culture of that Titanic in three years. It will take longer, cost more and will be a hard slog for a Minister whose courage and ability no one has any reason to doubt, but whose hands are tied, as everybody here knows, by faction fights, vested interests and inertia.

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