Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have pushed that snowball up the hill. Deputy Mattie McGrath left the snowball behind him after failing to face his responsibilities when he was in Government. The people of this country have moved that terrible burden up that incline with great sacrifice. They have succeeded and, while our hearts go out to them, we also congratulate them for what they have achieved. We have one more stride to make. This is the final one. If we fail to do what is expected of us now we will pay a bigger price. We will fall back to where we started and will have to start all over again. We will have to face the situation we faced when this Government came into power. Every morning when we switched on the radio we did not know what catastrophe was coming down the tracks. We did not know what else was going to happen in the world markets.

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