Joe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I firmly believe that when the history of this and the last decade comes to be written by social and economic historians, perhaps with postgraduate students applying their minds to it, the fascinating element to which they will commit most writing and thinking is how we maintained social cohesion throughout this period and how society kept its solidarity. They will consider how we did not have civil disobedience or, effectively, have trouble on our streets. In so far as we had a revolution, it was at the ballot box in 2011. It was a revolution of the people with their pencils in the quiet of the ballot box.

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