Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)

It merits repeating once more that the country is in grave difficulty and that people are genuinely anxious and afraid. Taking Senator Harris's metaphor of firing on ambulances, it is important that an Opposition party identify and echo people's concern as to why those ambulances are present. They are present because of cosy cartels and successive years of mismanagement by Fianna Fáil Governments. The country was badly run. The IMF's arrival is an extraordinarily serious matter.