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- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)
John Gerard Hanafin: ...the foundation of the State when the annual budget would have been no more than £20 million, special efforts were made by the new Government to ensure people went around the world to let the Irish diaspora know about the new State. Bonds were raised in America for the new State. It led to the recognition by a State that could ill afford it of the fruitful contacts that can be made....