Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)

A sign on the desk of former US President Harry Truman read, "The buck stops here". The buck stops here with the Minister, Deputy Dempsey. When the debate did not take place in this House yesterday the buck stopped with the Government. Large numbers of Aer Lingus workers travelled to hear the debate and the Government tried to put every obstacle in the way of dealing with this issue. We wanted to deal with it. The Government cannot run from it and will be held to account this afternoon.

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