Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I will cut to the chase. Anybody who has ever done a bit of wheeling and dealing will know this. When someone is sitting in a negotiation, it is about whoever blinks first. If Mr. Kelly is negotiating with the top financial people, the legal people or the director general, where does his leverage derive from? There is a clear contradiction when it comes to his position. He comes from a background of sales and selling chocolate. I am not being derisory about that and fair play to him for having worked his way up, but where does the leverage come from? Mr. Kelly is not giving me an answer to that question.