Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

To address the Deputy's supplementary on the subvention first, he will be aware that the subsidy in past two years increased and it is my intention to increase it even further in the coming years. I have no wish to see any loss of services to people throughout the country who need that subvention and connectivity. That particularly applies to rural Ireland.

I do not see what Stepaside has to do with this particular argument but somehow the Deputy has managed to include it in a way which I still cannot follow, but well done, it is to his credit. "No" is the answer to his question. I will not be intervening in an industrial relations dispute. How often does he have to ask me that question for me to give him the same answer? I am not going to be drawn in. I am not going to be producing the State's chequebook under any circumstances. That is not my role as a shareholder. It would be the worst move I could make.

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