Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

-----we in Government can work out the assets in a way that pays back the taxpayer and gets us good housing? I believe we can. We have grown up as a country in 70 or 80 years. We got it wrong in the past ten or 20 years. We got cheap, easy money after we had been poor for 800 years. We blew it, but we are still a strong and capable country that has grown tremendously in the past 80 years. If it is, as Deputy Burton said, a personal trust, I trust the people of this country, in these very difficult and challenging times, to be able to turn things around and for us to be able to get this to work. That is why I support this Bill and the Minister for Finance today.

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