Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does Mr. McGuinness agree that it was not always like that, that there were examples of very bold practice in the past? SFADCo was one example. I could refer to the way the Gaeltacht co-ops were treated in my time compared to now. We had a meeting recently with past and present co-op managers who could not believe the way we had been treated. When we got into financial trouble, we were bailed out and the result is there are hundred of jobs in the most unlikely of places. Does Mr. McGuinness agree that there were development models in the past that were not hamstrung by bureaucracy, which seems to be the case today? Mr. McGuinness comes from County Mayo. Does he agree that if Monsignor Horan, if he was alive, were to try to do today what he did then, the governance guys would close him down and that all he would have was an Aer Arann landing strip at the top of Barr na Cuiga?