Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Connolly knows, I am a great fan of hers and agree with her most of the time. However, I do not want my contribution to be misrepresented to suggest that I was sanctifying the private sector while rubbishing the public sector. I started by praising the Oireachtas Commission, as a former member of it. I was one of the people who prevented it from establishing a CEO of the Oireachtas, in order to ensure we had a Clerk of the calibre of Mr. Peter Finnegan. That said, my point was that in the private sector an employer cannot afford to tolerate this sort of incompetence, or the company would go out of business. That is the point I am making.