Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is open to this House to do what it wishes about it if we can get a consensus and perhaps a political will should be developed here to stand up for what we would regard as more common-sense solutions than those that are before us. What we usually do is delegate the responsibility elsewhere, the report comes before the House and we do not have the political courage to sort something out when we know it is not right.

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