Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I will read from something and do not know whether the Minister will think it is rubbish. A few years ago someone said Ireland's trade unions had subverted our democracy. He said:

What a pity there was no strike last Thursday. Some of us were longing for it. If the trade union leaders had called a strike they would have suffered bloody noses.

I think the person who said that has an agenda. It was the Minister who said it on the pages of the Sunday Independent. Does he still believe trade unions subvert democracy? Does he still want to see union leaders getting bloody noses? Is that still part of his agenda?