Mary White (Fianna Fail)

It is very important. We are in the middle of a serious crisis, a world crisis and a crisis in our own country but it is a challenge and an opportunity to show the world that we can pick ourselves up and get going again and be a role model for the rest of the world. Confidence is more important than gold. That is what Peter Sutherland was talking about this morning. Everyone knows I am a person who does not flatter and I tell the truth——