For everyone in the House and all others outside it, the findings of the final report of the Mahon tribunal present a truly awful picture of some aspects of political life in the 1980s and 1990s. There can be no, nor should there be, gainsaying of this basic conclusion. These findings and the associated recommendations place a heavy burden on the existing body politic to ensure, simply, wholesale corruption is never again allowed to flourish unchecked in local and national government. Work to this end has commenced. Having referred the report to other organs of State, they must now be left to do their work independently on following up on what happened in the past. In addition, the Government has embarked on an urgent and active consideration of the tribunal's recommendations in order that we take whatever steps are necessary. The overriding aim is to ensure what has been set out in the tribunal's report will never happen again and work towards restoring public confidence in the political system. Nothing less is expected of us and nothing less will suffice.