Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the biggest constraints we have in this country is the left's obsession with trying to label people who are not on the left with them. They throw in various comments to suggest that we do not know what we are doing. A real anti-European was expressed too in the time that I have been sitting in this Chamber. It was covert but fairly obvious. We need to challenge those remarks. If one looks at the Irish economy's output and the number of jobs, people and families it has supported over the last 30 years, it has grown by six or seven times. Our average incomes have increased. Our quality of living has increased.

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