Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

——and played both sides of the House on the groceries order. I know he would have had a different view from that of the party's spokesman on enterprise because he always favoured the abolition of the groceries order, yet Fine Gael tried to undermine that for political reasons. Every time we try to move on the domestic economy the vested interests come out of the traps and politicians from all sides try to protect them. That is one of the biggest challenges politically if we are serious about opening up the professions and so on. It is time for everybody to get on board and see these issues through because on any analysis, productivity on the domestic side is not as strong as it is on the foreign direct investment side. The absence of competition in a number of the sectors the Deputy mentioned — construction, professional services and others — is responsible for that and is leading——

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