Jim Glennon (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

While the minimum wage has been an important development, it is the product of the social partnership model we have had for the past decade or so and has been championed by the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern. He has driven it and nobody has been to the forefront of the social partnership model more than he has. It has been the model on which the boom in our economy is based. It is the way forward. It involves all the relevant parties around the table and all the representative groups.

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