Search for "we are where we are" speaker:Dan Boyle (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: Economic Situation: Statements (20 Apr 2011): Dan Boyle: ...repeat its failures. I hope the new Government takes this policy lesson on board as soon as possible. I want economic debates that move away from the very narrow and simplistic questioning of why we are where we are and how we got here. We are not where we are because of the bank guarantee; a bank guarantee of one form or another would have been needed in any case. The guarantee was too...
Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children: Statements (24 Feb 2010): Dan Boyle: ...we signed up to 20 years ago. We cannot take pride in the fact that it has taken us two decades to arrive at our current position. However, as we say in all good political and economic debates, we are where we are. We have to address this issue because it can no longer be put on the long finger. The commitment shown by the committee, the Minister of State and the original and revised...

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