Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We learnt the lesson that being open to and working with the world is good for our people. We are a wealthier country now than we were 50 years ago, following that approach. I do not disagree with de Valera - a lot of his ideas were actually quite green in many ways - but I do not believe we should switch back to a protectionist, nationalist approach to this revolution. It will not work, given the scale and speed of change we need. It will not work, given the poverty it would bring our people.

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