Seán Ardagh (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Sinn Féin party for introducing this motion and for giving us an opportunity to show the House and the country how well the Government, labour and management have worked together to create an economy of which we are all proud, which has no equal in the western world.

The Sinn Féin motion is to a great extent an attempt to split all the parties which have made the economy such a success — labour, management and Government — to create conflict, but for what purpose? We are to consider that labour should be in one department and enterprise in the other, to create a head-to-head situation of total conflict. As well as putting management, enterprise and capital in one department, Sinn Féin wants to tax them to the hilt. The party wants to ensure that corporation tax is increased, as was articulated very well in the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis over the weekend, where it was stated that tax is good.

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