Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will try to answer as many of the questions as possible. The Deputy spoke about the hire of coaches for the figure of €7 million. He also made reference to insurance costs soaring unnecessarily and difficult to explain. These are operational issues which is why we have management and people operating the companies. I am not going to micro-manage any of those semi-State bodies, in which I am a major shareholder, on a daily or weekly basis. That is not my job. Mr. Hernan, to whom the Deputy has given a great deal of credit, rightly or wrongly, although it is up to him, has made some statements about what he is going to do. Those things may or may not be palatable to the Deputy but we must allow the new management and the unions to work out these issues between them. While there have undoubtedly been problems there in the past, it is now possible to identify what has gone wrong. The Deputy should not ask me to get involved on a daily basis in the work of management-----