Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I met an official who works with me this morning, Mr. Eoin Sweeney of the Marine Institute. He was saying that he was over in Europe last week where they were offering him condolences on the conditions in Ireland, and he came back with an optimistic line. He said to them that we are undoubtedly going through a very hard winter but what we know from experience, and what there is a sense of in this country,-----

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