Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

We must make this leap into the higher value-added traded services and manufacturing. That will be a big challenge for the Government and society at large. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, is the ideal man to lead that change and lead this country into a bright future where there will be plenty of employment. Hopefully, my children and grandchildren will never have to face the prospect that the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and myself faced when we left college in 1984. At that time, the majority of our colleagues were emigrating to London and other places.

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