Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I almost doubted my own judgment and thought perhaps I was wrong, but I was not. To all the soothsayers, the experts who said we did not understand what we were talking about, that we did not have proper contact with the people, I say we did and, unfortunately, we were right. Unfortunately, the corrective measures now being taken could have been minuscule had they been taken back in 2002.

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