Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are pleased with that, in any event. Having listened to you, I am not clear on the thinking behind this. I will take two examples of what you just said and we will deal with them one by one. You said that with more GALs in the system the service could be increased and there would be no closed shop, and there will not be a cartel. You said something like that just a moment ago. However, the essence of what you are doing is creating a monopoly service by having one national service provider. It was said that there will be no cartel, but when what is being done is examined you are specifically creating a monopoly, because only one public service provider will be in charge. How can those two statements be reconciled?