Mr. Willie Quigley:

I welcome Deputy Fitzpatrick's question. In fairness to us, we would be in an awful lot of a better position to answer it. I will focus on his question about what we consider is required to repair the situation. I think everyone in the country knows about the preconditions in the letters, which need to disappear, so I will not dwell on that as it is already referred to in the submission. We cannot make a contribution and respond to the Deputy in as full a manner as we would like to in the current vacuum. A number of reports have allegedly examined everything and outlined the problems to management and it appears that, on foot of them, management has made decisions to target our people with this lot of cuts. It is telling us to swallow this first and that it will tell us at the end of March what is in the rest of the stuff. We cannot work on that premise. We need full disclosure of everything relative to this crisis that is available, that is, every available stitch of information and data on the issues that the consultants have identified. At that point, we will not be found wanting in terms of giving it our all to be part of the solution and reaching a resolution that does not impact the members the way the company has sought to unilaterally impose and without any engagement. However, without the information, we are snookered. We are behind the eight ball, as the man said.