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

Health outcomes have increased. Educational output and prowess and our foreign affairs prowess in the world have increased. We now have a life expectancy that is one of the highest in Europe. All of these things are down to collective agreements that we have made and the Irish people have voted on. For those opposite to claim there is some conspiracy to put down the small people is complete nonsense. It is the opposite. It has its flaws of course, but so do all forms of politics on the political spectrum. This one works because it is a hybrid of many.

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