Mr. Dermot O'Leary:

I am nearly there. I wish to make a point about rail companies entering this country and gobbling up State contracts. These are state companies from Germany, the Netherlands and France and are heavily subsidised there and elsewhere.

Seán Lemass, who was Minister for Industry and Commerce in 1958, inserted in that year's Transport Act "Reasonable conditions of employment for [CIE's] employees". Let not the vision of the past be destroyed by the blindness of the neoliberal champions of privatisation.