Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

If the only meetings that have taken place on social partnership have been effectively bilateral meetings between the Government and individual components of the social partnership arrangement, and there has not been a plenary meeting in recent times - clearly, the Taoiseach cannot remember when there was last a plenary meeting of the social partnership process - is it not fair to say that social partnership, certainly as we used to know it, is pretty well over?

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