John Gerard Hanafin (Fianna Fail)

If I might have the opportunity to say what I want to say, the difficulties we face have been misrepresented on the radio and television and in the newspapers. We faced much worse difficulties in the 1980s, and after the 1980s we had a long and sustained boom from 1994 to 2007 which brought the country significant growth and opportunities. We are facing difficulties that are manageable but to hear the radio programmes, which really should be-----