Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point I am trying to make is it is unfair that were I to start a teaching career in a school in the morning, I could not avail of some pay increase that has been agreed because I am not a member of a union. If it is going on in other Departments I would say that two wrongs will not make a right. I do not think this is a justification for it. Personally, I believe a wrong is being done because we are, de facto, saying-----