Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I do not want to be deflected in any way from what I was going to say, but I have sat and listened for the past ten minutes to the most cynical and unconfident contribution on an issue that is concentrating the minds of most people, namely, how to get ourselves out of this mess. I was waiting with a certain degree of expectancy and, as the speech neared its end, a growing sense of frustration. Not one positive proposal came from the contribution to which we have just listened. It was just a political rant, cynical political posturing with not one positive alternative or suggestion.