Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It will make certain that which was uncertain and over which great anxiety floated. It will create a more tangible and manageable horizon for distressed and anxious borrowers to head towards. Its worth is that it creates for them the perception that the tunnel is now short. Its value is that it imbues them with the confidence to believe that it is the light of hope and of a future with purpose that beckons them from the end of that tunnel.

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