Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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It is short, but there is an evocative tone to the letter. The letter says the ETB does not do this, but it does and did do this. The tone of the letter implies to me that the ETB viewed this person as troublesome. Whether that is right or wrong, the ETB inserted a clause in a contract that the person would never again apply in the ETB sector. It is obliged to answer questions about that. It is not reasonable to suggest that it does not do that as a matter of policy except when it suits it. If that was only on one occasion so be it, but such arbitrary clauses need to be prohibited in the public sector.