Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I firmly believe that. We must try to find a way in which we can engage again on a constructive basis. That is not necessarily easy to achieve and there must be a great deal of reflection on it. It is the best way forward in due course and I would rather it be done with a view to the agenda that has been already identified as a means of making sure we can get better and winning outcomes for everybody in due course. That would be better than simply escalating industrial action, which will not achieve any real constructive objective.

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