James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The bottom line is that in life you hold on to what you have and you do not let go of it until you see something better sitting on the plate in front of you. In this instance all we have is a plan, without the resources to make it happen. I ask again that Deputies from the north west — Deputies Beverly Flynn, Dara Calleary, Eamon Scanlon, Jimmy Devins, Mary Coughlan, Pat The Cope Gallagher, Niall Blaney and James McDaid — vote with their consciences and their hearts and not be brow-beaten into voting for something they do not believe in.

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