Mr. Gerard Guinan:

I do not recall anyone ever having been charged in respect of a political statement. I know statements were made about the failure to apply health and safety legislation. There were moves at one point in time where the health and safety legislation was not going to be applied to members of the Defence Forces. I have made statements and know Mr. King has made statements about the application of the working time directive. Currently, under section 3 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, members of the Defence Forces are precluded from the scope of the working time directive. We have been critical of certain things that are Government policy or parts of legislation.