Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I wish to finish my question. Does the Taoiseach accept that we find it incredible that a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on Aer Lingus has not taken place since December 2004, given that such an enormous decision to privatise a national airline has been taken? Will the Taoiseach scotch the rumour that a grubby deal was brokered between himself and the Irish Congress of Trades Unions that secured ICTU's toleration of the privatisation of Aer Lingus in return for the public ownership of the new terminal at Dublin Airport?

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