Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy would prefer Aer Lingus, when the European open skies policy comes into force, to continue to be able to fly into just five airports in the United States and have no opportunity to develop and grow and no chance of enhancing its status. Rather than unions and workers owning some of the shares, he would prefer them to be the slaves of what he sees as the capitalist class. He opposes workers owning shares and being able to have pride in their company. His ideology is gone, even in the most eastern parts of the communist world. His day and his old arguments are finished and he should realise it.

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