Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to see that happening. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this. We owe it to the people we represent and to the future generations of this country to fix our problems. The country was born out of revolution and over the decades had many high and many low times, but this is probably the lowest time the country has every had. If that is not a call for reform, what are we waiting for? How bad does it need to get before we step back and look at how we got here? We are only fooling ourselves and it will be to the detriment of our children and grandchildren if we do not fix this.

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